debootstrap bootstraps a basic Debian system of SUITE (eg, sarge, etch, sid) into TARGET from MIRROR by running
SCRIPT. MIRROR can be an http:// URL or a file:/// URL. Notice that file:/ URLs are translated to file:/// (cor‐
rect scheme as described in RFC1738 for local filenames), and file:// will not work.

Debootstrap can be used to install Debian in a system without using an installation disk but can also be used to
run a different Debian flavor in a chroot environment. This way you can create a full (minimal) Debian installation
which can be used for testing purposes (see the EXAMPLES section). If you are looking for a chroot system to build
packages please take a look at pbuilder.