What is your preferred way of installing Debian?

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What is your preferred way of installing Debian? And which branch (stable, testing, unstable) do you use?

I typically use debootstrap from another distribution, but I've also found the win32-loader to be quite handy with installing Debian.

Currently using SolusOS, which is Debian Stable with the 3.3.6 kernel, Gnome 2.30 DE, and more up to date software. I have tweaked this further by getting rid of Plymouth, and swapped GDM3 for Slim, as well as ditching anything to do with compositing,

I also use Crunchbang Waldorf, which is essentially Debian Wheezy. I also played around with the LXDE version of Debian Wheezy. --I actually like Crunchbang better.

All distros though are downloaded as either CD or DVD .iso files and transferred ro USB thumbdrive with unetbootin.

Did you not read my first post?

Have you even heard of the win32-loader? Or the debootstrap package in the repos of most distros? win32-loader and debootstrap are alternative ways of installing Debian on a hard drive partition; they don't require CD/DVD/USB. You can use debootstrap from within another distro or from a live cd and install debian by entering a chroot environment.

Actually I did. Win32 loader is somewhat difficult to utilise, (and not to mention redundant) when you're already running a Linux System. AFAIK, debbootstrap is what you want to use when installing on an unused partition on an already extant system. This is made redundant by the fact that I have no unused partitions on any of my drives. Still, if it works for you great, but I have no reason to use it.