If you have no use for PCMCIA, you can choose to remove it at this point.
This will make your startup cleaner; also, it will make it easier to
replace your kernel (PCMCIA requires a lot of correlation between the
version of the PCMCIA drivers, the kernel modules, and the kernel itself).
In general, you will not need PCMCIA unless you're using a laptop.

Select and Install Profiles

The system will now ask you if you want to use the pre-rolled software
configurations offered by Debian. You can always choose package-by-package
what you want to install on your new machine. This is the purpose of the
dselect program, described below. But this can be a long task with the
thousands of packages available in Debian!

So, you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead. A task is
work you will do with the machine, such as ``Perl programming'' or ``HTML
authoring'' or ``Chinese word processing.'' You can choose several tasks.
A profile is a category your machine will be a member of, such as
``Network server'' or ``Personal workstation.'' Unlike with tasks, you can
choose only one profile.

To summarize, if you are in a hurry, choose one profile. If you have more
time, choose the Custom profile and select a set of tasks. If you have
plenty of time and want very precise control on what is or is not
installed, skip this step and use the full power of dselect.

Soon, you will enter into dselect. If you selected tasks or profiles,
remember to skip the ``Select'' step of dselect, because the selections
have already been made.