Hi, >> >> - not usable from arch installer. i assume i cant use it as proxy >> >> setting what is asked in the installer. but maybe i can somehow else >> >> use it from the installer? I'm doing something like this for a couple of centos machines... using apache as a caching reverse proxy (also serving kickstart files). <VirtualHost *:80> # the usual servername, logfile, etc... LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so LoadModule disk_cache_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_disk_cache.so CacheRoot /home/sites/ks/cache CacheEnable disk / CacheDirLevels 2 CacheDirLength 8 CacheMaxFileSize 2097152000 ProxyRequests off ProxyPass /centos/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/centos/ </VirtualHost> it should just work with something like: ProxyPass /archlinux/ http://some.mirror/path_to/archlinux/ point your installers there and you should be fine I know you said squid is to much hassle... maybe your more comfortable with apache ;) Regards, Wolfgang