installing dapper on serial console

[Carl Alexander]

I have a machine with only a serial console that I'd like to
install 6.06.1 i386 server onto.  The official CDs don't seem
to contemplate this possibility (which seems like an odd
oversight, so I may be missing something).

I _thought_ it would be fairly straightforward to build a
serial console install CD --- just be a matter of gunzipping
the files from a CD image, editing the CD's /etc/inittab and
/boot/grub/menu.lst and and the ones it installs, and building
a new CD image of the results.  I now know this was a based
on some naiive assumptions, but haven't found any clues as to
how to actually do what I need to.  Does anyone know what the
right way to go about this would be?

Thanks in advance,

---Alex