Bug#328729: debian-installer: [i386] Floppy installations fail

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

When loading the boot floppy from 20050916 build, you get the following
errors in the console:
  modprobe: exec of insmod: No such file or directory
(this error is repeated a number of times)
  /usr/sbin/usb-discover: 73: uname: not found
  /usr/sbin/usb-discover: 73: cut: not found

With BOOT_DEBUG=3, I can see that insmod is present in /sbin, but uname
and cut are not available.

Running insmod <module> from debug shell succeeds, but modprobe fails
with the same error as listed above.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-16.0508-2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)