http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto
"Creating a EABI chroot using debootstrap"

Thats how it should go.
debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign sid /armel-chroot http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian
on your computer
and
# chroot /armel-chroot /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
on the IT

+ additional work