Debian 12 how to bootstrap an image
Starting from a fresh Debian 12 installation do the following;
apt-get install debootstrap
export MY_CHROOT=/exports/mve8.0_4
mkdir -p $MY_CHROOT/dev/pts $MY_CHROOT/proc $MY_CHROOT/var/run
mount --bind /dev/ $MY_CHROOT/dev/
mount --bind /dev/pts $MY_CHROOT/dev/pts
mount --bind /proc $MY_CHROOT/proc
debootstrap --arch amd64 bookworm $MY_CHROOT/ https://deb.debian.org/debian/
cp /etc/passwd $MY_CHROOT/etc/
cp /etc/shadow $MY_CHROOT/etc/
cp /etc/group $MY_CHROOT/etc/
cp /etc/apt/sources.list $MY_CHROOT/etc/apt/
cp /usr/share/keyrings/*gpg $MY_CHROOT/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
chroot $MY_CHROOT
apt-get update
apt-get install wget net-tools screen locales tzdata collectd telnet whois traceroute nfs-kernel-server jq bash dialog iptables
dpkg-reconfigure locales
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
exit
umount $MY_CHROOT/dev/pts
umount $MY_CHROOT/dev
umount $MY_CHROOT/proc