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Um, no? The 336 megabyte usb installation media contains everything you need to install base Debian. Most people will want a desktop environment and other packages, they can connect to the network to download those additional packages.
No, that’s a tarball of a kernel, basic command line tools, apt and a network stack that lets you download most of the operating system.
Um, no? The 336 megabyte usb installation media contains everything you need to install base Debian. Most people will want a desktop environment and other packages, they can connect to the network to download those additional packages.
Even the how-to says the network is optional.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s04.en.html#idm368
me when i spread misinformation