Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@???):

> They're time wasters for folks like you with the intelligence and Linux
> knowledge to do a chroot install. I have a little less than the
> requisite intelligence and Linux knowledge, so for me, having to trial
> and error installer programs a couple times is faster and less work
> than doing a chroot install.
>
> Another problem is that, except for Arch, Gentoo and Funtoo, most
> distros have inadequate documentation on their chroot installs.

Hello! I'm not actually the Rick Moen you know, but rather a visiting
historic Rick Moen from the year 1998. I'd like to demostrate the use
of the sort of improved search engine that Google, Inc. launched
commercially last year in my timeline (1997). Before that, it was a
demo over at googol.stanford.edu . But enough about that. I used this
newfangled Google Search Engine, and typed:

debootstrap chroot install

One of the first hits on the first page of results appears to be a
step-by-step HOWTO document that's exactly what you're looking for.

The point being that suitable Web-page searching can help you find
someone else who's already solved and comprehensively documented a
problem, so you really don't need great amounts of intelligence and
knowledge after all, but can take advantages of the generous help of
others.

It's nice to live in the future, even if it's just the future year 1998,
because you find all sorts of useful things. Maybe 2018 will be fun, as
well.

> But yes, you're right: For a person with the smarts and Linux knowledge
> to understand chroot installs in their bones, an installer would be a
> time waster and very frustrating.

_Or_ the basic common sense to find a good run-through and follow it.