Arch Linux

Description:
I am in charge of creating a net install method at work for arch linux. We have computer labs running Fedora, and we want to move to Arch. I've read through the various tools and looked at existing solutions, and I feel the best way to proceed will be to modify the existing arch linux installer. I'd really love to see my efforts pushed upstream.

Basically the installer itself is what I'll mainly be working on. It is simply a shell script. At the top I'll basically download the "kickstart" script for the installer portion, which will also be a bash script that gets sourced. It will contain variables that are usually set by the installer itself. The installer will have to be modified to check to see if a variable is set before asking the user for input-- this will make it easy for the creator of the kickstart script to see what values are causing some problem that might come up. The arch installer will prompt for a new value using the existing menu system just as it would if it had been given the same faulty response through the menu system.

The other component that needs to be modified is the initramfs image creation scripts. Currently the initramfs scripts only look for cd-rom drives or usb drives for the sqfs image. It'll need to be able to pull this image off the network via http, nfs, tftp, or some other method. Preferably, it should be able to support at least http/ftp.

I'm going to be implementing, testing, and using this. I'm just starting on this project, so I don't have any code to contribute, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to open a feature request to see if any arch devs believe that this would be beneficial.

One of my goals is to try to eliminate as much code duplication as I can, and keep things as minimalistic as possible. I'm trying to keep the arch design philosophy as I plan this out.
I will post urls for my git repos once I have them publicly available.