You can install it to hard drive without a network connection. But then you will eventually need a network connection to do other things. There are no wireless drivers installed from the non-free repository, but the deb packages are in /home/user/wireless_drivers. If you know which one you need, just install it with dpkg -i or gdebi.
Run
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lspci
to see what Network controller is listed, If it's not obvious which firmware package you need, post the output here. I just realized that the readme in the wireless_drivers directory doesn't have the descriptions of the packages in it. And you can't get those descriptions until you get a network connection.
Install the package with
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dpkg -i firmware-whatever.deb
or
gdebi firmware-whatever.deb
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ifconfig wlan0 up
or reboot.
One other thing you may need to do is set the name of the wireless interface (probably wlan0) in the wicd preferences. When you open wicd, there's a little triangle arrow over on the right side of the menu bar. Click on that and choose Preferences, then put 'wlan0' in the text box. Save/OK that, and you should see some wireless signals listed. Choose the one you want and set the preferences for it.