You don't need to chroot to the debian environment to get ftp working - just follow Hamzy's instructions... basically, what he's doing is giving you a file called stuff.tar which contains a list of files that need to be extracted from the debian root - the tar command he gives on step 4, specifically the -T tmp/filelist parameter, tells tar to just untar the files in the file list...

If you find it difficult after following hamzy's intructions, let me know and I'll try to hurry up w/ my installer script:)
-mark

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