Magicloud Magiclouds wrote at 2010-09-10 04:38 -0500:
> I mean from a non-Debian linux environment and an empty disk, and internet.
> I'd like to try out reiser4 for root. I have compiled 2.6.35.4 with
> reiser4 into .deb, and a disk with reiser4 filesystem.

Check out debootstrap.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/426
http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap