zlinw@mcmedia.com.au writes:
A comment on Russell's post regarding koganmobile, the problem with this is the data per day is limited to 400Mbytes, this means one cannot simply get large items like even a CD image.
I assume you've already considered and rejected simply installing from mini (12MB) or netinst (around 100MB), and then installing only what you need, on demand, via apt's http method? That would be the obvious way to do it if your installed box has reliable internet access. If you have a central host that has internet, and airgapped ones a day's travel away, you could use apt-walkabout to queue requests up over sneakernet between them. I didn't have much luck with it myself -- I found it easier to run a debmirror on the internet end, and generate monthly rsync --only-write-batch binary diffs to post out on DVD.