Auto pull german mirrors before install

01-install/05-mirrors.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Rank download mirrors before pacstrap — WITHOUT reflector (not on the ISO).
+# Pull a Germany/HTTPS list from Arch's official mirrorlist generator, already
+# ordered by mirror status/score, and activate it. Only needs curl (on the ISO)
+# and hits archlinux.org's CDN, so it doesn't depend on the slow current mirror.
+# pacstrap copies this list into the installed system, so it speeds up the base
+# install AND every later pacman run. Falls back to the shipped list on failure.
+url='https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=DE&protocol=https&ip_version=4&use_mirror_status=on'
+tmp="$(mktemp)"
+if curl -fsS --max-time 20 "$url" -o "$tmp" && grep -q '^#Server' "$tmp"; then
+  cp -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak 2>/dev/null || true
+  sed 's/^#Server/Server/' "$tmp" > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+  info "mirrorlist → Germany/https, $(grep -c '^Server' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist) mirrors (status-ranked)"
+else
+  info "could not fetch DE mirrorlist — keeping the ISO's list"
+fi
+rm -f "$tmp"

01-install/run.sh

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ read -rp "Type ERASE to continue: " ans
 [ "$ans" = ERASE ] || die "aborted"
 
 source ./00-partition.sh      # partitions + mounts /mnt, /mnt/boot
+source ./05-mirrors.sh        # rank pacman mirrors (fast DE) before pacstrap
 source ./10-pacstrap.sh       # base system + fstab + copy repo to /mnt/root
 
 # in-chroot steps (the whole repo, incl. system.conf, was copied by 10-pacstrap)