Problems using sarge netinstall (07012004) image in bochs

["Doc aka. Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger" <dr.pain@lifeishell.de>]

I don't have any systems for testing at hand so i decided to try the new 
di in bochs and came across
some problems.

How can I activate a swap partition from within di?

when I try to load the ne.o network drive in default installation mode I 
don't have a chance to append the IO Address.
Workaround: Lower the debconf priority or use expert mode.

installation of ne.o still fails.
Workaround: switch to shell
#modprobe crc32
#modprobe 8390
#modprobe isa-pnp

switch back to di and use the the menu to install ne.o with the right IO 
Address.
di says that it hasen't found any network device but dmesg  ifconfig on 
command  line shows that it's there .

I was able to use di to configure the network via dhcp and manually.

Installation of the base system fails (screenshot included).

-stop testing now-

greets Uwe