A word of warning about the size of the tasks as they are displayed: The
size shown for each task is the sum of the sizes of its packages. If you
choose two tasks that share some packages, the actual disk requirement
will be less than the sum of the sizes for the two tasks.

Once you've added both logins (root and personal), you'll be dropped into
the dselect program. dselect allows you to select packages to be installed
on your system. If you have a CD-ROM or hard disk containing the
additional Debian packages that you want to install on your system, or if
you are connected to the Internet, this will be useful to you right away.
Otherwise, you may want to quit dselect and start it later after you have
transported the Debian package files to your system. You must be the
superuser (root) when you run dselect. Information on how to use dselect
is given in section 3.20.

Package Installation with dselect

It is now time to install the software packages of your choice on your
Debian system. This is done using Debian's package management tool,
dselect.

Introduction

This section documents dselect for first-time users. It makes no attempt
to explain everything, so when you first meet dselect, work through the
help screens.

dselect is used to select which packages you wish to install (there are
currently about 2,250 packages in Debian 2.1). It will be run for you
during the installation. It is a very powerful and somewhat complex tool.