My debootstrap variants are great if you don't mind installing everything from scratch. My experience is that both work, and both get equally enormous after installing a few big apps. The larger debootstrap has some useful things like wget that you'll have to install manually with the smaller one.

Using my files avoids the mpd user problems, but I was getting locale problems. I haven't tried working from the debootstrap again since I got the very good suggestion to try "dpkg-reconfigure locales". I actually think the problem is that neither of the debootstrap variants have locales installed, so you probably want to "apt-get install locales" before installing anything else.

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EDIT: So I'm working on the debootstrap again. I needed to do both things to get locales set correctly. I would recommend doing the following three things as soon as you untar your new chroot and then chroot in:

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The only reason I would stay with the bootable Debian if I wasn't planning to boot to it is if I had already installed OpenOffice.org. I've gotta figure out how to fix those packages.

Well, technically, no, which is why I've changed the wiki. If you use the qwerty12 hack that lets you move windows around in OS2008, and you install XVKBD or something similar (or you use a hardware keyboard), and you're willing to set something up with wmctrl to full-screen the apps, you can muddle through in OS2008. But the programs really are designed for a non-Hildon window manager, and eventually you're going to hit a window that is too big for the screen and can't be moved. I've managed to get through these by just tabbing through the buttons and pressing enter when I think I'm on the "OK" button. But KDE makes it much easier to use Debian apps.

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