Sorry for wasting bandwidth on this list, but I just had to rant. I installed the base portion of potato, then after my first reboot chose "standard home workstation in the "slick-pick" part of the install.
When I started to download the packages selected by that routine, I was told I don't have enough drive space to download everything. "No problem," I thought; I'd just choose a smaller download grouping when the Install portion of dselect lets me choose which files to download. Only the apt method doesn't support that option like the ftp method did. Doh! Suggestions on this list suggested I move the /var/cache/apt to a larger partition and create a symlink to it. So I did this, and that helped, and now I have enough drive space to download everything, but I don't believe I'll have enough space to unpack the downloaded packages (I only have an 820MB HD). So following another suggestion on this list, I went into dselect and tried to put some stuff on Hold. Only thing is, dselect's "Select" option sucks! sucks! sucks! Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect I could figure out how to work it, but the help screens indicated that I could just select something like "Required Updated Packages" and put that on Hold. But then dependency screens came up, so as per the help screens, I pressed "R" to restore things to the way they were, then I pressed "X" to exit and abandon all changes. But when I went to the "Install" option to try the full download again, all of a sudden the size of my download doubled. >From there it just went downhill. I've been around this list long enough to know that several people have asked how to get back to the "slick-pick" screen and haven't gotten a good answer. So I guess I'm stuck with having to manually go through dselect's "Select" option and try to get a working system. Again, sorry for wasting bandwidth on this list, but I just had to rant.
