1. After you install your base OS, "nano" is NOT getting installed in the system. It exists in the CD as a package, but it doesn't get installed. Please add it in the installation group that gets on the hard drive at the end.

2. Please include wget in the base. A few days ago a friend of mine wanted me to install arch for him, and I couldn't find the 0.7 CD, I only found my 0.6 CD. After installing the OS, the problem was that pacman's paths have changed in the download server and so I could not bring the system to -Current. The obvious solution (because there is no ftp/samba installed either) is to use wget to download the new pacman version, install it locally, and then upgrade to -Current. But there was no wget either there and could not install it via 'pacman -S wget' because as I said, the paths have changed since then in your FTP servers.

So, please, either include the GNU ftp client by default in the -base, or include wget in there, because if older basic installations need to upgrade, they will found themselves in the bad situation of chicken and the egg.