Yeah, basically that's what I did. Faster ? Well it went from very slow to slow so... lol.
Anyway, a friend of mine noticed something, when you type mount in the chroot environment, there is no /media/mmc(1/2) output, but they are both accessible (so they are mounted). Just a detail but maybe qole could include in the next version of his script something that copies the fstab of maemo in the debian one ? Is it feasable ? (I don't know much about scripting)