Having just trashed my debian partition (long story), I just re-downloaded the squeeze image. Just so I could test this, I downloaded the img file (I'll copy it back to the debian root fs partition with the instructions a couple of pages back).

The untar takes a LOT longer than I would have expected. It takes about 6 minutes. If I recall, the whole install is supposed to be about 15, so cutting that untar out will make a large difference in the second stage install time for EasyDebian.