diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index a4bd315..32a9ba7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,15 +2,13 @@
 ARG BASE_IMAGE
 FROM $BASE_IMAGE
 ARG BASE_IMAGE
-ARG KEEP
 ARG SYSADMIN_PW
 ARG LINUX_DISTRO=alpine
-ARG BUILD_DIR=/build 
-WORKDIR $BUILD_DIR
+WORKDIR /build
 
-COPY .src/packages ./packages
 # PACKAGES
-RUN <<eot
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.src/packages,target=/build/packages \
+<<eot
 echo -e "\n ************************************************* \n"
 echo "Building Image from Base: $BASE_IMAGE" 
 echo "Distro: $LINUX_DISTRO; *****"
@@ -20,17 +18,41 @@ echo -e "\n********************************************************"
 eot
 # END PACKAGES    
 
-COPY .src/init ./init
-
 # INITIALIZATION
-RUN echo -e "\n ************************************************* \n" \
-    echo "****** Initializing Image "; \
-    cd init; \
-    chmod -R +x .; \ 
-    pwd; ls -la; \
-    echo " ---- running init script ---"; \
-    /bin/bash ./init.sh; \
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.src/init,target=/build/init \
+<<eot
+    echo -e "\n ************************************************* \n" 
+    echo "****** Initializing Image with build source ******" 
+    cd init 
+    pwd; ls -la
+    if [[ -d env/ ]]; then
+        echo "copying env/ to /opt/env"
+        /bin/cp -R -p env/. /opt/env
+        ls -la /opt/env
+    fi
+    if [[ -f env/build.env ]]; then
+     source /opt/env/build.env 
+     rm -f /opt/env/build.env
+     echo sourced /opt/env/build.env and deleted
+    fi
+    if [[ -d bin/ ]]; then
+        echo "copying bin/ to /opt/bin"
+        /bin/cp -R -p bin/. /opt/bin
+        chmod -R +x /opt/bin
+        ls -la /opt/bin
+    fi
+    echo " ---- running init script init.sh ---"
+    /bin/bash ./init.sh
+    echo "############## Finished run init build script(s) ###########################"
+    if [[ -f /opt/env/run.env ]]; then
+       echo "sourcing /opt/env/run.env from /etc/profile"
+       echo "&&&&&& last 10 of /etc/profile &&&&&"
+       echo -e "# added from image build\nsource /opt/env/run.env" >> /etc/profile
+       tail /etc/profile 
+       echo "%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%"
+    fi
     echo -e "\n *************  End Initialzation ************************" 
+eot
 # END INITIALIZATION    
 
 # default command
diff --git a/build b/build
index 24357fa..4213537 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ source $BDIR/lib/load.sh
 case "$1" in
   try)
   shift 1
-  popd > /dev/null || return 2
+  # type try_container
   try_container "$@"
   return $?
   ;;
@@ -49,11 +49,10 @@ exit_abnormal() {                         # Function: Exit with error.
   return ${1:-1}
 }
 
-
 [[ -z "$PS1" ]] || no_prompt=true
 overwrite=true
 
-while getopts 'g:e:b:d:t:ncr:u:plhs:w:akvoi' OPTION; do
+while getopts 'g:e:b:d:t:ncr:u:plhs:avo' OPTION; do
   # echo processing: option:$OPTION argument:$OPTARG index:$OPTIND remaining:${@:$OPTIND}
   case "$OPTION" in
   e) 
@@ -69,14 +68,6 @@ while getopts 'g:e:b:d:t:ncr:u:plhs:w:akvoi' OPTION; do
   # automated - script is to be run without prompt (non-interactive)
     no_prompt=true
   ;;
-  k)
-  # keep the build scripts in the image, by default they are removed
-    KEEP=true
-  ;;
-  w)
-  # the work directory to put the build scripts in container (default is /opt/build)
-    BUILD_DIR=$OPTARG
-    ;;
   b)
   # CUSTOM BASE IMAGE
     BASE_IMAGE=$OPTARG
@@ -192,25 +183,9 @@ LINUX_DISTRO=$(docker_image_distro $BASE_IMAGE)
  BASE_IMAGE=$LINUX_DISTRO
 fi
 
-if [[ $1 ]]; then
-[[ $NAME ]] && echo changing image name from $NAME to $1 
-NAME=$1
-fi
-if [[ $2 ]]; then
-[[ $RUSER ]] && echo changing image username from $RUSER to $2
-RUSER=$2
-fi
-if [[ $NAME ]]; then 
-  [[ $append_distro ]] && NAME=$NAME-${LINUX_DISTRO}
-  else
-  echo no image name supplied using distro name $LINUX_DISTRO
-  NAME=${LINUX_DISTRO}
- fi
+IMAGE_NAME=$(make_image_name $@) 
 
-
-IMAGE_NAME=$([[ $RUSER ]] && echo ${RUSER}/)${NAME}
 # TODO writing to existing tag untags existing image so write a new tag to that image then continue
-
 # retag existing image and remove former tag
 if [[ $(image_exists $IMAGE_NAME) ]]; then
   if [[ $overwrite ]]; then
@@ -223,16 +198,13 @@ if [[ $(image_exists $IMAGE_NAME) ]]; then
   fi 
 fi  
 
-# BASE_IMAGE=$([[ $BASE_IMAGE == *:* ]] && echo $BASE_IMAGE || echo $BASE_IMAGE:latest)
-#$([[ ! $BASE_IMAGE == *:* ]] && echo :latest)
-
 ARCH=$(get_arch)
 
 export BASE_IMAGE
 export TAG
 export IMAGE_NAME
 export LINUX_DISTRO
-export BUILD_DIR
+export BUILD_SRC
 export KEEP
 export SYSADMIN_PW
 export ARCH
diff --git a/docker-bake.hcl b/docker-bake.hcl
index c53bba2..c5bd5af 100644
--- a/docker-bake.hcl
+++ b/docker-bake.hcl
@@ -5,25 +5,18 @@ variable "TAG" {
 variable "LINUX_DISTRO" {
   // default = "alpine"
 }
-variable "BUILD_DIR" {
-  default = ""
-}
 variable "IMAGE_NAME" {
   // default = "alpine"
 }
 variable "BASE_IMAGE" {
   // default = "alpine"
 }
-variable "KEEP" {
-  default = ""
-}
 variable "SYSADMIN_PW" {
   default = ""
 }
 variable "ARCH" {
   default = ""
 }
-
 function "tag" {
   params = [suffix]
   result = [format("${IMAGE_NAME}%s:${TAG}", notequal("", suffix) ? "-${suffix}" : "")]
@@ -54,8 +47,6 @@ target "amd64" {
     LINUX_DISTRO = "${LINUX_DISTRO}"
     BASE_IMAGE   = "${BASE_IMAGE}"
     TAG          = "${TAG}"
-    SCRIPTS      = "${BUILD_DIR}"
-    KEEP         = "${KEEP}"
     SYSADMIN_PW  = "${SYSADMIN_PW}"
   }
   tags      = tag("")
diff --git a/lib/cmds/try b/lib/cmds/try
index 91c75e7..1b216fc 100755
--- a/lib/cmds/try
+++ b/lib/cmds/try
@@ -9,21 +9,24 @@
 try_container () {
 
     declare -A arch=( ["x86_64"]="" ["aarch64"]="-arm64")
-    local mp;local cuser; local hmp; local bind; local vname; local prod; local priv
-    local dkpath; local hostmp; local evar; local hostmap; local cleanup; local efile
-
-     [[ $# -lt 1 ]] && echo "image name required to try" && return 1
+    local mp;local cuser; local hmp; local vname; local prod; local priv
+    local hostmp; local efile; local entrypoint; local evar
+    local envf; local image; local append_distro; local options
 
     declare OPTION; declare OPTARG; declare OPTIND
     OPTIND=0
-    while getopts 'f:o:dpr:t:u:m:h:ke:s:' OPTION; do
+    while getopts 'lf:o:dpr:t:u:m:h:kv:e:s:' OPTION; do
     # echo processing: option:$OPTION argument:$OPTARG index:$OPTIND remaining:${@:$OPTIND}
     case "$OPTION" in
     s)
      entrypoint="--entrypoint $OPTARG"
     ;; 
+    e)
+     if ! source_env_file $OPTARG; then return 2; fi
+     efile=true
+   ;;  
     f)
-     efile"--env-file $OPTARG"
+     envf="--env-file $OPTARG"
     ;; 
     d)
      dryrun="echo "
@@ -31,6 +34,10 @@ try_container () {
     u)
      cuser=$OPTARG
     ;;  
+    l)
+    #  append distro name to image name
+     append_distro=true
+    ;;
     k)
      keep=true
     ;; 
@@ -46,7 +53,7 @@ try_container () {
     h)
      hmp=$OPTARG
     ;; 
-    e)
+    v)
       evar="-e $OPTARG"
     ;;  
     t)
@@ -67,11 +74,13 @@ try_container () {
 
     shift $((OPTIND - 1))
 
-    [[ ! $1 ]] && echo must supply an image to try && return 1
+    [[ ! $efile ]] && source_env_file
 
-    # user=${2:-$ruser}
-    image=$1
-    shift 1
+    image=$(make_image_name $@) 
+
+    echo image name to try: $image
+
+    [[ ! $image ]] && echo must supply an image to try && return 1
 
     if [[ $prod ]]; then 
         echo removing any local copy of image $image
@@ -110,10 +119,9 @@ try_container () {
 
     echo starting container with image: $image, and name $name
     echo at container prompt type \'exit\' to exit from shell and remove trial container
-
         # --entrypoint /opt/scripts/entrypoint.sh \
-    $dryrun docker run -i -t --rm $priv $evar $hostmap $options \
-        ${entrypoint} ${efile} \
+    $dryrun docker run -i -t --rm $priv $evar $options \
+        ${entrypoint} ${evnf} \
         $([[ $cuser ]] && echo "--user $cuser") \
         --name try-$name --hostname try-$host-$name \
         $([[ $mp ]] && echo "-v $vname:/$mp") \
diff --git a/lib/helpers.lib b/lib/helpers.lib
index 1432276..bbc02e7 100755
--- a/lib/helpers.lib
+++ b/lib/helpers.lib
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ env_file () {
 }  
 
 read_env_file() {
+  local evar
   while read line; do
   evar=$(echo $line | cut -d '=' -f1)
   if [[ ! ${!evar}  ]]; then
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ read_env_file() {
 }
 
 source_env_file () {
-    local default
+    local default; local efile
     if efile=$(env_file $1); then 
       [[ $efile == ".env" ]] && default=true
       [[ ! $(isAbsPath $efile) ]] && efile=$(realpath $efile)
@@ -114,4 +115,28 @@ echo $(cat $temp | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | grep -Poi '(debian|ubuntu|red hat|ce
 rm $temp
 }
 
-(return 0 2>/dev/null) || docker_image_distro $@
\ No newline at end of file
+make_image_name () {
+
+# echo making image name $@
+# echo name: $NAME
+# echo user: $RUSER
+# echo distro $LINUX_DISTRO
+
+if [[ $1 ]]; then
+# [[ $NAME ]] && echo changing image name from $NAME to $1 
+NAME=$1
+fi
+if [[ $2 ]]; then
+# [[ $RUSER ]] && echo changing image username from $RUSER to $2
+RUSER=$2
+fi
+if [[ $NAME ]]; then 
+  [[ $append_distro ]] && NAME=$NAME-${LINUX_DISTRO}
+  else
+#   echo no image name supplied using distro name ${LINUX_DISTRO:-alpine}
+  NAME=${LINUX_DISTRO:-alpine}
+ fi
+
+echo $([[ $RUSER ]] && echo ${RUSER}/)${NAME}
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/load.sh b/lib/load.sh
index 71296a6..1a1acde 100755
--- a/lib/load.sh
+++ b/lib/load.sh
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ for f in $libdir/cmds/*; do
   source "$f"
 done
 
+
diff --git a/src/init/common/scripts/entrypoint.sh b/src/init/bin/base-entrypoint
similarity index 100%
rename from src/init/common/scripts/entrypoint.sh
rename to src/init/bin/base-entrypoint
diff --git a/src/init/common/scripts/start.sh b/src/init/bin/base-start
similarity index 54%
rename from src/init/common/scripts/start.sh
rename to src/init/bin/base-start
index 39f7426..bff3855 100755
--- a/src/init/common/scripts/start.sh
+++ b/src/init/bin/base-start
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # echo arguments in start script:  "$@"
-source $SCRIPTS_DIR/container.env
-source $SCRIPTS_DIR/host-id-map.sh 
+source /opt/env/run.env
+source /opt/bin/host-id-map.sh 
 case "$1" in
-  shell_update)
-  echo updating shell repos
-  ;;
   cmd)
   shift 1
   "$@"
@@ -13,7 +10,7 @@ case "$1" in
   script)
   shift 1
   module_load path
-  script=$([[ $(isAbsPath $1) ]] && echo $1 || echo $SCRIPTS_DIR/$1)
+  script=$([[ $(isAbsPath $1) ]] && echo $1 || echo opt/bin/$1)
   shift 1
   /bin/bash $script "$@"
   ;;
diff --git a/src/init/bin/entrypoint b/src/init/bin/entrypoint
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..12ffe33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/init/bin/entrypoint
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+base-entrypoint
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/init/bin/host-id-map.sh b/src/init/bin/host-id-map.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf4b1b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/init/bin/host-id-map.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+if [[ $HOST_MAP ]]; then
+  echo changing ownership of $VOLUME_DIRS to $HOST_MAP
+  declare usesudo
+  [[ ! $EUID -eq 0 ]] && usesudo=sudo 
+  $usesudo chown -R $HOST_MAP $VOLUME_DIRS
+fi 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/init/bin/start b/src/init/bin/start
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..1f0173b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/init/bin/start
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+base-start
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/init/common/init.sh b/src/init/common/init.sh
index bc84358..74a2dbc 100644
--- a/src/init/common/init.sh
+++ b/src/init/common/init.sh
@@ -20,14 +20,12 @@ export SHELL=/bin/bash
 mkdir -p /home/sysadmin/shell
 /bin/bash /shell/base/install/install.sh sysadmin
 echo "******** uci shell install complete **********"
-/bin/bash -l -c "module_load dir; dir_copy scripts /opt"
-echo installed scripts in /opt/scripts
-ls -la /opt/scripts
-source /opt/scripts/container.env 
 # make essential directories
-mkdir -p $SHARED_DIRS /opt/scripts /opt/bin
-chown -R host:host /home/sysadmin/shell $SHARED_DIRS /opt/scripts /opt/bin
-chmod -R g+rw /home/sysadmin/shell $SHARED_DIRS /opt/scripts /opt/bin
+mkdir -p $VOLUME_DIRS /opt/bin
+chown -R :host /home/sysadmin/shell 
+chown -R host:host $VOLUME_DIRS 
+chmod -R g+rw /home/sysadmin/shell $VOLUME_DIRS 
+ls -la /home/sysadmin/shell $VOLUME_DIRS 
 echo installing and running image distro info
-/bin/bash install-info.sh
-/opt/scripts/info
+/bin/bash install-os-info.sh
+/opt/bin/os-info
diff --git a/src/init/common/install-info.sh b/src/init/common/install-os-info.sh
similarity index 50%
rename from src/init/common/install-info.sh
rename to src/init/common/install-os-info.sh
index 184b2b5..9a87fcf 100644
--- a/src/init/common/install-info.sh
+++ b/src/init/common/install-os-info.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-wget --quiet -O /opt/scripts/info https://git.io/vaHfR > /dev/null
-if [[ -f /opt/scripts/info ]]; then
-    chmod +x /opt/scripts/info
-    ln -sf /opt/scripts/info /opt/bin/ 
+wget --quiet -O /opt/bin/os-info https://git.io/vaHfR > /dev/null
+if [[ -f /opt/bin/os-info ]]; then
+    chmod +x /opt/bin/os-info
   else
     echo Failed to download 
     echo "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/master/screenfetch-dev"
diff --git a/src/init/common/scripts/container.env b/src/init/common/scripts/container.env
deleted file mode 100644
index 11e4fce..0000000
--- a/src/init/common/scripts/container.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-export SHARED_DIRS="/shell /opt /data"
-export INITIAL_DIR=/opt/scripts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/init/common/scripts/host-id-map.sh b/src/init/common/scripts/host-id-map.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 739bb93..0000000
--- a/src/init/common/scripts/host-id-map.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-source $SCRIPTS_DIR/container.env
-if [[ $HOST_MAP ]]; then
-  echo changing ownership of $SHARED_DIRS to $HOST_MAP
-  $([[ ! $EUID -eq 0 ]] && echo sudo) chown -R $HOST_MAP $SHARED_DIRS
-fi 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/init/common/scripts/shell-update.sh b/src/init/common/scripts/shell-update.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/src/init/env/build.env b/src/init/env/build.env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bf0bd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/init/env/build.env
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# anything in here will be sourced during build
+# allows easy custom environment variables
+source /opt/env/run.env
+# export SOMEVAR="something"
diff --git a/src/init/env/run.env b/src/init/env/run.env
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4efb12d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/init/env/run.env
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# added /opt/run.env to the end of /etc/profile
+export VOLUME_DIRS="/shell /opt /data"
+export INITIAL_DIR=/opt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/init/init.sh b/src/init/init.sh
index 3896c39..1e7c0ff 100644
--- a/src/init/init.sh
+++ b/src/init/init.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
- echo "entry init.sh script in $BUILD_DIR"
+ echo "running base init.sh script in /build"
  # remove other distro files
 #  find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -type d  ! -path $PWD ! -name ${LINUX_DISTRO} ! -name common -exec rm -rf {} +
  cd ${LINUX_DISTRO} || exit 1
@@ -19,8 +19,3 @@
      echo returned from ${LINUX_DISTRO} post common script
  fi
  cd ..
-
- if [ -z $KEEP ]; then
-    echo removing $BUILD_DIR directory used for build
-    cd /opt && rm -rf $BUILD_DIR
- fi
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/packages/common/packages b/src/packages/common/packages
index b1836d4..b6d1ee0 100644
--- a/src/packages/common/packages
+++ b/src/packages/common/packages
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ curl
 git 
 rsync
 sudo
-nano
\ No newline at end of file
+nano
+coreutils
\ No newline at end of file