chroot

[sigi <dugongs@gmx.de>]

Hi,

today I tried to install a chroot on my amd64-machine, but it failed...

I did it, like described here: 
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960

But 
debootstrap --arch i386 sid /var/chroot/sid-ia32 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/

gives the errormessage: 
E: Couldn't download base-config

ignoring this and trying: 
chroot /var/chroot/sid-ia32

gives this:
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

So, where do I get the base-config files? Are they not available 
anymore? Or are they only temporary not available? 

sigi.