Does a Rawhide network installer ISO exist?

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I frequently create VMs to test f43 kde Rawhide [1] (in virt-manager). [1:1] At alt.fedoraproject.org, I see an option for an f42 network installer, which reduces the amount of time I need to spend downloading an ISO:

However, I don’t want to spend time manually switching its package selection to that of Rawhide’s. Consequently, does a network installer image exist for the Rawhide branch?

I ask because OSTW offers this, [2] being primarily entirely rolling-release, and prioritising its non-live installer; the opposite of what Fedora does.

  1. openqa.fedoraproject.org/nightlies.html ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-NET-x86_64-Snapshot20250618-Media.iso?mirrorlist ↩︎

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I think it’s the “Everything boot” here?

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@pg-tips, its f42 counterpart (it was to hand) definitely lacks the live environment:

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However, it’s 1.1 GiBs, and called “Everything”. When compared with OSTW’s 297-MiB ISO, are you confident? I might as well download the regular ISO!

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My F42 Everything is 912 MiB - not sure why we see different sizes, but the netinstaller images are certainly in that region (F41 seems to be marginally smaller at 901 MiB).

The name “Everything” is debatable, but I guess it should be thought of as “an image with the capability to install everything [via the internet]” rather than “an image that contains everything”.

For a nightly, yes indeed (assuming you want a nightly version of Workstation, KDE or one of the other standard editions).

For a fixed release, the bandwidth advantage of the netinstaller is that you don’t waste bandwidth on all the outdated packages in the live ISO that get overwritten on your first dnf update. But that doesn’t apply to nightly builds.

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