On 9/2/25 1:08 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: > On 9/2/25 12:25 PM, Mathew Wescott wrote: >> I was under the impression from the documentation instructions that the >> installer worked completely offline. Yet every install I've tried to run on >> my machine has had an unknown error with the same message appearing to imply >> that it needs an Internet connection. Maybe the installation instructions >> are misleading? >> > The documentation is correct about the installer being completely offline. I > believe the reason the installer mentions "downloading" packages is because > Qubes OS uses a modified version of the Fedora installer, which, unlike Qubes > OS, can download packages over the Internet during installation, and this > "downloading" text was not changed, even though the Qubes installer is > completely offline. In the Qubes OS installer, the packages are actually just > being "downloaded" from your flash drive (or whichever installation medium > you wrote your Qubes ISO to). I don't believe that your error actually has > anything to do with your machine lacking network access.
Please feel free to open a bug report for this: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/issue-tracking.html#how-to-open-a-new-issue I've also opened an issue for changing or removing the misleading installer text: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/10199 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/9a0afc58-a1c5-4454-b310-e105c8cf427c%40qubes-os.org.
