I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be the best option for them. Is it reasonable to expect them to be able to do a network install over dialup? I should also explain that this will be a fairly minimal system. What I would recommend them to do is to install the base system, then XFree (using tasksel) and a lightweight window mgr and maybe browser (e.g., Links - maybe Dillo). That's the way the initial install would look, in my thinking. Other programs could be added as needed, via apt-get. Would this be feasible to do over dialup? Probably would take several hours, wouldn't it? Oh, and I should ask whether the install-base routine can resume broken downloads (in case the modem drops the connection or the ISP kicks them offline or something)?
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