diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-installer/de-p1st-installer.sh b/pkg/de-p1st-installer/de-p1st-installer.sh
index 1fa4d76..8f81a3f 100755
--- a/pkg/de-p1st-installer/de-p1st-installer.sh
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-installer/de-p1st-installer.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ function increase_cow_space() {
 function get_user_input() {
   # @post
   #   BIOS_TYPE (uefi or bios)
-  #   KERNEL    (linux or linux-lts)
   #   FS        (BTRFS, EXT4, F2FS)
   #   HOSTNAME
   #   USERNAME, USER_PWD
@@ -46,9 +45,6 @@ function get_user_input() {
   TMP1=('uefi' 'Newer mainboards' 'bios' 'Legacy BIOS on older mainboards')
   get_single_choice  BIOS_TYPE "Select your bios type" TMP1 || return $?
 
-  TMP1=('linux-lts' 'Long-Time-Stable Linux kernel' 'linux' 'Latest Linux kernel')
-  get_single_choice  KERNEL "Select kernel version" TMP1 || return $?
-
   TMP1=('BTRFS' 'Allows snapshots and dynamic extension of the FS' 'EXT4' 'Default FS of many distributions' 'F2FS' 'Flash-Friendly-FS for SSD or NVMe')
   get_single_choice  FS "Select filesystem to use" TMP1 || return $?
 
@@ -159,25 +155,11 @@ function choose_mount_options() {
 function run_pacstrap() {
   # @pre
   #   BIOS_TYPE
-  #   KERNEL
   #   CPU_VENDOR
 
   echo "Running pacstrap ..."
   PKGS=()
 
-  case "${KERNEL}" in
-  linux)
-    PKGS+=("${KERNEL}" "${KERNEL}-headers")
-    ;;
-  linux-lts)
-    PKGS+=("${KERNEL}" "${KERNEL}-headers")
-    ;;
-  *)
-    echo "Not yet implemented!"
-    return 1
-    ;;
-  esac
-
   case "${CPU_VENDOR}" in
   amd)
     PKGS+=("${CPU_VENDOR}-ucode")
@@ -340,7 +322,7 @@ function main() {
   #   installation finished
 
   check_network  || return $?
-  # out: BIOS_TYPE, KERNEL, FS, HOSTNAME, USERNAME, USER_PWD, LUKS_PWD
+  # out: BIOS_TYPE, FS, HOSTNAME, USERNAME, USER_PWD, LUKS_PWD
   get_user_input || return $?
   # out: CPU_VENDOR
   get_cpu_vendor || return $?
@@ -371,7 +353,7 @@ function main() {
   mkdir /mnt/boot              || return $?
   sudo mount "$BOOT_PART" /mnt/boot || return $?
 
-  # in: BIOS_TYPE, KERNEL, CPU_VENDOR
+  # in: BIOS_TYPE, CPU_VENDOR
   run_pacstrap  || return $?
   # in: FS
   run_genfstab  || return $?
diff --git a/pkg/de-p1st-installer/installer.cfg b/pkg/de-p1st-installer/installer.cfg
index 77df936..aeeaa64 100644
--- a/pkg/de-p1st-installer/installer.cfg
+++ b/pkg/de-p1st-installer/installer.cfg
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ LUKS_PWD=test
 # if unset, then USER_PWD will be used for ROOT_PWD
 # ROOT_PWD=test
 
-KERNEL=linux
-
 TARGET_BLOCK_DEVICE=/dev/sda
 BOOT_PART_SIZE=500  # MiB
 FS=BTRFS
@@ -29,4 +27,7 @@ BIOS_TYPE=uefi
 # will be left mounted/opened after installation
 LEAVE_MOUNTED=1
 
-PACSTRAP_INTERACTIVE=1
\ No newline at end of file
+PACSTRAP_INTERACTIVE=1
+
+# TODO: additional pacman packages, e.g.
+# ADD_PKGS=('de-p1st-kernel-default')
\ No newline at end of file