What is the current process to build a Fedora 44 Live ISO (with a view to customising)? All I can find related to F44 is Making sure you're not a bot! I’ve tried the kiwi build script mentioned in the readme to build iso variants of multiple profiles, yet in each case booting ends up in a loop of S…

Another option you could consider is creating a kickstart file to control the installation. It’s a script that allows you to customize just about everything in the install process.

I used kickstart with F43, but I thought that was no longer supported from F44 onwards? At least I don’t see any Cosmic/KDE kickstarts available for the F44 images to use as the base?

That’s because the Fedora build folks don’t use kickstart to build their images any more. However, that doesn’t mean that kickstarts are deprecated or not usable. You can snag the older kickstart files from the Fedora Kickstart Files Repository . They can be used to create an appropriate kickstart…

Yes I was hoping to avoid that by using the same base file as was used for the Fedora 44 Live ISO and customise from that (as I did with Kickstart files with F43). However, the kiwi files do not seem to produce a bootable image for me. I don’t know if the readme is lacking some information or if th…

[image] .: I’d prefer not to have to figure out how to customise an F43 based kickstart to replicate the F44 live image if I can help it, although it’s looking like that may have to be the way to go. While not live images, I’ve been “porting” kickstarts for Workstation, KDE, XFCE, MATE, i3, a…

I plan to customise the images eventually, I just wanted to start with the unchanged live iso to make sure everything works before I start changing. Which, it didn’t :frowning: I’ll take a look at migrating my F43 kickstart over to F44 although I’d still like to get to the bottom of why the kiwi is…

Sounds like you have a plan. If you can’t get the kiwi builds working, here’s some Kickstart documentation that’s often helpful: part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 - Kickstart Documentation — Pykickstart... The following commands can be placed in a kickstart file. If you prefer …

Have you checked out Fedora Remix and the Creating and Using a Live Installation Image section of the Fedora docs?

[image] Rectangular Waterspouts: Have you checked out Fedora Remix and the Creating and Using a Live Installation Image section of the Fedora docs? Both of those are, unfortunately, heavily outdated. They are both two tools out of date - they cover livecd-creator, which was the thing we used …

Custom live iso F44?

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glb (Gregory Lee Bartholomew) May 20, 2026, 10:38pm 10

Adam’s recent response here might be relevant to this discussion. Maybe there is some hope that the documentation will be updated soon.

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