Please help: repo mirrors not found during fedora everything iso install

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Hello, I am unable to install fedora everything due to installation source errors.
Upon selecting auto detected media in a usb port and clicking done I get:

Failed to add the ‘anaconda’ repository: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘anaconda’: Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/ repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried

I am trying to install an iso from a bootable usb and can install fedora workstation 40 and 41 and fedora jam 41 without issues. I have tried to install fedora everything 39, 40 and 41.
I have a hp pavillion 17 laptop with an intel i7 cpu, 8gb ram and nividia geforce 1660 gtx gpu.
I have tried to boot install on another computer and confirm the stick is not the issue.
I believe this is not documented very well, as I can seldom find any information on this issue.
All the other installation settings seem to work in order.

Please help solve this.

The only other interesting and possibly relevant information I can contribute is that upon installing other fedora os my touchpad is always initially disabled.

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For the netinstall you need to be online. Can you confirm that you’re connected to the internet before installing?

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Assuming internet connection on the graphical installation screen in network & host name, then yes.
I have only tried wifi however, not ethernet cable.

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Ethernet is generally more reliable and easier to troubleshoot than Wi-Fi.
You can also provide Internet access with USB tethering from a smartphone.
Otherwise, consider troubleshooting from a text TTY: Ctrl+Alt+F2/F6

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Using cable would be the safer option if you have the hardware for that. I would expect you have to manually configure wifi once you boot the network install. If not for other reasons, you would somehow need to provide the password for the wifi connection after selecting your wifi router.

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Under network and hostname confirm that you have a valid ip and dns entry.

Switch to TTY as described by @vgaetera and use ping and nslookup commands to check whether your internet connection is working.

Under Source, click on closest mirror, if that doesn’t work, add fedora‘s main download server, not a mirror.

Should be something like Index of /pub/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os

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When I tried again today using an ethernet cable, I realised that source installation was already good to go.
I realised the entire time under source installation I had been choosing auto detected media in the usb port e, and instead when network install option was selected there was 0 issues.
I have since installed fedora everything.
I Am amazed that I had missed something so simple the entire time.

Thank You everyOne for your help regardless.
Additionally I presume I should delete this discussion?, as the issue was simply my own unperceived blunder.

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Nope - don’t delete it. Leave it for others to find when they search for the same kind of issue.

After all, if you made this error, others may also make the same oversight.

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The everything image is the one you can choose most. So you really not alone with making such kind of mistakes. See it as learning by doing :wink: