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...syslinux' simplicity makes all of this possible and educational. p.s. I am still interested in making some freebsd booting HOWTOs, but i maybe need more hardware. And the whole thing seems to be a disaster with freebsd9. For now I really want to use the power of debian debootstrap, (or perhaps pacstrap), to bootstrap a qemu/kvm based system, that would in return serve a pxelinux based image to a second qemu/kvm isntallation. My grandest hope is that the user has this with less than 30 or 40 lines of code. If any of you have some articles that will help, it would be much appreciated. Sincerely -...

...in (root and home) as shown below. pvcreate /dev/xvda1 vgcreate arch /dev/xvda1 lvcreate -L 18G -n root arch lvcreate -L 1G -n home arch mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/mapper/arch-root mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/mapper/arch-home mount /dev/mapper/arch-root /mnt mkdir /mnt/home mount /dev/mapper/arch-home /mnt/home pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash #setup /etc/locale.gen & /etc/locale.conf #setup host name #setup network sed -i 's/MODULES=\"\"/MODULES=\"xen-blkfront\ xen-fbfront\ xen-netfront\ xen-kbdfront\"/g' /e...

I got this figured out much faster than I thought I would. Thanks to all of your help, Peter, Mattias, Thomas and Helmut. And Thomas, that 8 partition live OS sounds right up my alley, and I will definitely check it out. The second partition is working well with `parted' and `fdisk', so I am quite pleased. Below is, again, "what I came up with". I tried to integrate each of your