No installable kernel found in the defined APT sources during install

Hello,
   I'm attempting to install debian 6.0.5 stable using the small CD image
and it continuously fails on the "Installing base system" step.  It gets
all the way to the end then fails with the message: "No installable kernel
found in the defined APT sources"  I've searched around the Internet
tirelessly to no avail.  The only info I found on this issue was here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/04/msg00034.html

But the suggested solution requires running apt-get which is not available
as the base system isn't installed yet so that didn't work.

Does anyone have any insights into this situation?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan