dvdrip in 32 bit chroot?

[Alexandru Cabuz <alexcabuz@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I just tried installing dvdrip inside my 32 bit sarge chroot. It
installs fine, I configure it, everything is cool, it rips the DVD,
but then when it has to encode it complains df doesn't work. It's got
a point. df does not work inside the chroot. I get this (sorry it's in
french)

df: La table du système de fichiers  ne peut être lue.: Trop de
niveaux de liens symboliques

Translation is "Can't read filesystem table: too many levels of symbolic links"

How can I get it to work?

I am now in the process of trying to install dvdrip on my amd64
system, but the cyberspace.ucla.edu site is real slow at best, and it
just times out most of the time. If it was real slow it wouln't be a
problem, but it times out, so I have to rerun apt like dozens of
times, and each time it reads like one percent, then times out. For
each package.

How can I go around this? Is there any way to download the needed
packages separately (from... somewhere...) and just install them by
hand one by one?

I know which packages I need cos apt-get lists them. It just can't
seem to be able to actually download them without timing out...

Alex.