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

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