I'd like to confirm the same behaviour. Running VMware on AMD64 Edgy, used a fresh debootstrap of the feisty sources, built from a Knoppix bootdisk iso. Hardware is (VMware host) Intel EM64T 2.8Ghz DualCore, 1Gb RAM.
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