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One reason I stayed away from Debian so long.

> 
> The main problem I'm having is that "tasksel" and "dselect" seem to be
> user-unfriendly in the extreme.

Ohh. Bad way to do it. Let me show you painless: The Knoppix HD install.

It trivial:

1) Get a recent Knoppix disk from www.knoppix.net
2) Boot up and su to root
3) Run knoppix-installer and answer the brief questions it asks.
4) Let it whir away. It'll install a Debian unstable from the knoppix CD.
5) After rebooting, run apt-get update and get everything updated.
6) Voila! you're done.

The HOWTO is here:

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html";>http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html</a>

Use knoppix-installer instead of knx-hdinstall as it's a updated tool with a
better user intderface.

Good luck!

BAJ


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