Yes, it is curious.
Please provide more information about your build system.
So we can find out where we need to update our documentation.
Sure, here is what I did to build d-i and after the sequence of debian-cd to create the disks.
I have installed the build-dependencies for d-i then I created
sources.list.udeb pointing to main/debian-installer from etch so, I run
make all_build to start the build proccess and after finish it I copy
all contents from dest directory to
dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images in my local repository.
After finish with d-i I used debian-cd to generate the disks with follow make's:
make distclean
make mirrorcheck
make bin-list TASK=task/debian-installer+kernel-etch COMPLETE=1
make bootable
make bin-md5list
make bin-images
make imagesums
the CONF.sh is properly adjusted to my necessities.
Concluding, I have follow the "default" way to build all image options
of d-i and some importants components (most part of them, I think) are
missing as I said my first mail to the list. I dont know if I have miss
some informantion in the road but in fact I presume something wrong
with d-i build schema. I have solved the problem using apt to get the
rest of components.
Thanks for reply's and if any help to build some documentation is need you can count with me.
Thanks
Matheus Morais