This is location I got the floppy images from
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/
I had an earlier version of the boot disk initially,
from some 7 or so days ago, so the problem is not
very recent. I have completed debian installs
in the past.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
skype: thomaskrichel