May I offer a suggestion and you may already be doing thi; its what I do to create Arch installs customized to my own needs. Either: a) Create a simple script with installs a list of packages you want. Can be as simple as a shell script with a list of commands like: pacman -S --needed linux linux-custom mdadm lvm2 pacman -S --needed networkmanager pacman -S --needed vi etc Adjust pacman options to taste or if you're a little more energetic and looking for a bit more fun: (b) create one or more personal meta packages which you can then simply pacman -U. Every install you do, just copy the script or package file(s) to new install and you get standard install just the way you want it. I suspect many arch users do something like this anyway. gene
