On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Laurie Brown wrote:
Bloody hell! Gentoo on an Android! Speaking as a man who runs Gentoo almost exclusively, that's seriously impressive!
I wasn't the first: there's a step-by-step tutorial on getting Gentoo installed in a chroot on Android, at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=789003.
Many thanks to all who replied. In the end, I decided to take the plunge, and ran
/usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch armel squeeze /debian http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
within the existing Gentoo install. I'm pleased to report that the resulting Debian install works fine. After a few apt-gets, I now have, in Debian-under-Android-on-a-phone, the likes of emacs, xterm, sshd, and X via tightvnc's vncserver and the Android VNC viewer app. Firefox is next.