Is there a way to ssh into the debian installation process?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Is there some way to tell the debian installer to enable an ssh server during the installation?  I'd like to be able to ssh/slogin/scp to the installation process so I can retrieve log files and otherwise snoop the process when the keyboard/mouse are frozen.

This is part of my pursuit of Bug#728936, which renders it impossible to do a normal Sid CD-based installation of my PowerPC Macs, because the USB keyboard and mouse are not recognized.

Thanks in advance!

Rick

PS: It looks like (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/WebInstaller?highlight=%28ssh%29%7C%28server%29%7C%28install%29) there was once a web install option, but it seems to be moribund since 2009.  Is there any possibility of resurrecting it?