Comment 3 for bug 293586

There's a fixed i386 initrd available here:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/tmp/intrepid-busybox-fix/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/

Unfortunately, nothing for x86_64. Until this is fixed, Ubuntu-8.10 is 100% useless to me. I'm not about to manually install 8.10 a few hundred times.