Christian Perrier wrote:
Well, as mentioned above the general design choices have been made for having d-i as versatile as possible. This includes the choice of downloading a lot of stuff, sure. A part of this design choice is motivated by the fact that people with low bandwidth will probably use full CD images (which are currently not available....but using netinst images should be a good idea in your case).
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch02s05.html Chapter 2. System Requirements 2.5. Memory and Disk Space Requirements You must have at least 32MB of memory... I have 64 Mbytes and that's not enough.