[PLUG] Rat off a Sinking Ship?

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "alan" == alan  <alan at clueserver.org> writes:

alan> I don't think he could install Debian.  He has a 56k modem line,
alan> if that.  Most Debian distributions insist on downloading
alan> anything and everything.

Not everything, just the packages that are installed, which _can_ be
rather limited.  Also, you _can_ use CD-ROMs (if you can find them),
it's just a matter of setting your /etc/apt/sources.list
appropriately.  But sure, broadband is a pleasant thing to have.


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