Hello! Some of you may remember AIF (Arch Installation Framework). However, the project is dead ([0]) and has been for quite some time. Being that most major distributions have a way of installing their distribution in an unattended manner/via PXE: -Debian (and derivatives, incl. Ubuntu): preseed -RHEL/CentOS/SuSE (and derivatives): kickstart (cobbler, etc.) I felt that Arch would benefit from something similar. As such, I have written AIF-NG[1]. It's written in python 3 and uses an XML-driven configuration (see the documentation[2] for details[3]). I would welcome feedback on this (preferably via my bugtracker[4] unless it happens to be discussion-oriented), as I'd like to get it mature enough to propose it for inclusion in the official Arch install media (currently for this to be supported, that would only require two things: the "python" and "aif" (or "aif-git") packages, which can be found on the AUR[5][6]). [0] https://github.com/Dieterbe/aif [1] https://git.square-r00t.net/AIF-NG [2] https://aif.square-r00t.net/ [3] https://aif.square-r00t.net/#writing_an_xml_configuration_file [4] https://aif.square-r00t.net/#bug_reports_feature_requests [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aif/ [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aif-git/ -- brent saner https://www.square-r00t.net