On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 05:31:31PM -0600, Brendan Long wrote: > Is there anything similar to debootstrap for Arch? Debootstrap basically > a command where you give it some options and point it to a partition and > it installs Debian (or a Debian-based distro) onto it. You can install packages under a particular directroy using the command pacman -S pkgname -r /gateway/to/hell So using that you can actually build a chrooted environment and work your way up. Somethign like $ pacman -S base -r /gateway/to/hell $ mount -t proc /gateway/to/hell/proc ... ... $ chroot bash /gateway/to/hell $ complete the installation there. should work. Regards ppk
