The debian install documentation for debootstrap is quite good. I am using cdebootstrap. As I am installing Debian squeeze from another debian (linux) distribution we can bind /dev and mount proc so the howto simplifies and enhaces a bit.

Partitioning

Since squeeze uses grub v2 I am using file system (ext4) for all partitions.

/dev/md0 (SW Raid 1) on /boot
/dev/sda[ab]2 SWAP partition
/dev/md1 (SW Raid 1) with LVM PVEs on it (in group vg including /dev/vg/root)

Afterwords mount the partitions to /mnt/${debinst}.

Bootstrap system

# cdebootstrap --arch amd64 squeeze /mnt/${debinst} http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
# mount -t proc none /mnt/${debinst}/proc
# mount -o bind dev /mnt/${debinst}/dev
# LANG=C chroot /mnt/${debinst} /bin/bash
# cp /proc/self/mounts /etc/mtab

What you must not forget bevore reboot

/etc/fstab
Configure apt
Setting the timezone
Configure networking (/etc/hostname, /etc/hosts)
Set the locales
Install kernel apt-get install linux-image-2.6-amd64
Install grub apt-get install grub, grub-install /dev/sd[ab], update-grub (check /boot/grub/grub.cfg)
Install lvm2 and madm apt-get install lvm2 mdadm
Install openssh apt-get install openssh-server
Set root password passwd
Clean up apt-get clean

Reboot and hope the best ;-).

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