How-to setup an empty remote repository?

Hello,

I thought I'd try to setup a shared "empty" remote repository and then
clone it and then push the initial commit from another maching.
This failed as shown below:

 $ cd ~/git-repos
 $ mkdir test.git
 $ cd test.git
 $ git --bare init --shared
 Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/wink/git-repos/test.git/
 $ git-daemon --reuseaddr --verbose --base-path=/home/wink/git-repos \
    --export-all --enable=receive-pack

On my other machine:

$ git clone git://192.168.0.8/test.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/wink/prgs/test/.git/
fatal: no matching remote head
fetch-pack from 'git://192.168.0.8/test.git' failed.
$

And the remote machine responded:

[27299] Connection from 192.168.0.133:56710
[27299] Extended attributes (18 bytes) exist <host=192.168.0.8>
[27299] Request upload-pack for '/test.git'
[27299] Disconnected

In the instructions I followed for setting up a remote repository,
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html,
it uses an existing repository. So is it true you can't clone an
empty remote repository, or did I do something wrong?

I'm using :
$ git --version
git version 1.5.3.rc6.23.g0058

Note, my reason for using the shared remote repository is to make it
simple and easy to backup my repository on a second machine and
it seemed reasonable to try a an empty repository.

Cheers,

Wink Saville