This problem does not occur on i386. It's specific to the PowerPC installer.
(i386 sid d-i has other problems, but not any that are relevant to this bug report)
Rick On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
It booted, chose language and locale OK, found the CD, loaded installer parts from the CD... Then when it tried to identify the network interface, it failed to find an appropriate driver.