I also observed lack of DCHP on the "sid" business card image from the 20040517 daily build: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040517/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso d-i gave this error: [!!] Configure the network No DHCP client found No DHPC client was found. This package requires pump or dhcp-client. Setting a static address worked.