installing sarge/sid from cd

[Matthew Ewanchuk <linux@intellinetcommunications.net>]

I have d\l both CD1 of sarge and sid, but neither will boot correctly.  I 
get a syslinux 1.75 prompt, but there does not seem to be a way to select 
different versions.  If you hit enter, you just get the continous looping 
error after init starts of 
/usr/src/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:222 (frontend _new) 
and another very similiar message about slang.so and not being able to load 
them.

I don't even see any bin files on the cd for different kernel flavours like 
the woody cd has.  I've tried 3 different versions of sarge over the past 
two weeks, and they are all like this.

Anyone know anything about this?