I got my debian bootstrap to the point where it can now apt-get.

Life is on easy streets now boys. :D

Congrats Scotty!

Do you mind posting a step by step instruction how you did it?

on the same token, I think everybody has noticed that wget is available in the iLiad default OS.

Yes but wget doesn't do dependency trees and pull all the goodies for you, apt-get does.

The thing that makes me hesitant about documenting apt-get is that if you don't set up the memory card... you'll fill your root filesystem faster than you can say "oh no!" doing something like "apt-get emacs".