diff --git a/steps/40-install.step b/steps/40-install.step
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "~> Installing 'base' group and 'grub', 'efibootmgr'"
+pacstrap /mnt base grub efibootmgr
diff --git a/steps/50-configure.step b/steps/50-configure.step
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "~> generating fstab"
+genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
+
+echo "~> Choosing 'Europe/Berlin' as timezone and syncing hardware clock"
+arch-chroot "/mnt ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime"
+arch-chroot "/mnt hwclock --systohc"
+
+echo "~> Overwriting locale.gen and generate en_US and de_DE"
+arch-chroot "/mnt echo -e "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8\nde_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen"
+arch-chroot "/mnt locale-gen"
+arch-chroot "/mnt echo "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" > /etc/locale.conf"
+arch-chroot "/mnt echo "KEYMAP=de-latin1" > /etc/vconsole.conf"
+
+echo -e "~> Choose a hostname: "
+read hostname
+arch-chroot "/mnt echo $hostname > /etc/hostname"