I came across the same problem as Ye Tian said.

2009/2/21 Ye Tian <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> Seems I cannot install it.
>
> I connected to internet already but it cannot download utilities and
> packages remotely.. are there any suggestions?
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Robert Millan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:36:11PM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
>> > Robert Millan wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:42:27PM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
>> > >> Also if someone needs a DVD burned/mailed to them because they are
>> > >> behind a really slow connection we can arrange that (you would of
>> > >> course
>> > >> need to transfer to a USB stick you own).
>> > >
>> > > I haven't looked into producing iso images out of my apt archive, but
>> > > it
>> > > shouldn't be hard to do by playing a bit with debian-cd scripts.
>> > >
>> > > Note that an USB stick can be converted into an install system by
>> > > simply
>> > > copiing an ISO image that contains a package archive to its root
>> > > directory.
>> > >
>> > > BUT the netboot initrd won't use it.  A separate build of D-I will be
>> > > needed.
>> > > I can make one of those without too much effort though.  Maybe I can
>> > > have a
>> > > look tomorrow.
>> >
>> > I was thinking more they would have both the files they need to boot
>> > from, and could just serve the other files via their local network from
>> > the DVD. Just as a short-term hackish thing. Of course your way sounds
>> > much better longer term :)
>>
>> I don't think this would be necessary.  The debian-cd scripts are easy to
>> use, I
>> just didn't find the time to do it.
>>
>> --
>> Robert Millan
>>
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>> (and
>>  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
>>  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
>>
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> Raymond \ Ye.Tian
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