an observation, and question

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Wed Apr 7 22:53:40 EDT 2010


John G. Heim <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> wrote:

>I think the trick is to install just the base system. During a debian 
>install, a page comes up where you check off which groups of packages you 
>want to install. You can uncheck everything, even the base packages and then 
>your install will take only about 300 Mb of disk space. Even with a dialup 
>connection it doesn't take 24 hours to download 300 Mb.

Another option here is to boot a GRML CD (which has Speakup included), then
use deboostrap to install Debian. the Debian installation manual has an
appendix which explains how to do it.





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