apt-get downloading packages question

[Preston Landers <planders@mail.utexas.edu>]

Hey there...

Finally got apt-get to download slink packages for me.  I don't know
exactly how I fixed it.  I did two things: download + install slink base
manually, and install apt-get 0.3.0.  

Anyway, I still have about 50 mb of packages to download and apt-get
annonyingly gives up the whole process with a single bad transfer or
connection.  all I have to do is press enter about three times to get it
to start over, but for some reason, it's happening every few minutes and
I have to babysit it.  There's got to be a better way ... a way for
apt-get to keep retrying.  By the way, I'm using apt-get within dselect.

Any ideas?

many thanks in advance,
Preston