>partition changes you want, then choose to install packages via Internet, but >select "dists/unstable main contrib non-free".
I would say dists/potato instead of dists/unstable; here is why: I once used dists/unstable, and everything worked fine until the next debian version changeover (such as the one that will soon occur). At that point, since I had told the system to use unstable, I was upgraded to the NEW unstable. This is not what I expected, and I was surprised when, suddenly, over a hundred pacakges were upgraded. And whereas potato is realtively usable, brand new unstable archives often have many bugs and pacakging problems. I am not sure why we actually have those two symlinks (except for historical purposes) instead of files named 'stable-is-slink' and 'unstable-is-potato', but there is probably a good reason. Nonetheless, if you don't ALWAYS want the unstable version, use a real distribution name instead of 'unstable'. Carl
