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.
