debian installation (dselect and dpkg) woes

[Marvin Bellamy]

I've been able to set up my debian installation with the basic 
configuration information, but using dselect is a bear.  Problem now is 
setting up my sources.list file to read from the hard drive.  Assuming I 
downloaded the CD to:

/dos1/linux/debian/dists/stable/<main|contrib|non-free>

what should my source be?  I've used:

deb file:/dos1/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free

with no success.  I'd hate to install by HTTP or FTP after all that 
downloading to get the packages.