K@bsherman @Noel @j0rge
KSo, to recap
KWe're tired of waiting for upstream, and even if upstream pulls through the install experience still isn't exactly great
KNoel and I found this:
KGitLab
A generic OS-Installer that can be customized by distributions
KWhich is beautiful, and extendable enough that we may be able to make this work for us
KIt runs on a live CD image, which Fedora doesn't really do anymore
Kbut another OS is using it that's based on Arch (and another on Nix)
KGitHub
Configuration files for mkarchiso. Contribute to arkanelinux/arkaneiso development by creating an account on GitHub.
KThat would be this one
KWould mean we have a bootable microscopic arch image that then just launches GNOME OS installer, and let's us do what we need to install an OCI image (including locally)
K
KHere's an arch mkiso github action as well
Kready to go
KNoel also did some work to get bootc to install an image and then immediately rebase to a remote URL
Kwhich I believe we can leverage through this installer
Kit also supports FDE and user account creation, both of which we need
KGitHub
Configuration files for os-installer. Contribute to arkanelinux/os-installer-config development by creating an account on GitHub.
Khere are the configs for the installer arcanelinux ships
Kjust to show how it works
Hwait, so we might actually make the meme installer?
EI need to use ujust distrobox-arch and make a meme neofetch window after hearing this. 
FI wonder what would new installer still lack?
FIt doesn't look bad based on screenshots I saw
Fbut VanillaOS type of installer is definitely much better
NMore so a PoC at this point, but yeah. Arch is flexible enough to provide this kind of live environment to run the installer.
NI've tried with the Fedora tooling and it will likely be tougher to use.
N@Kyle Gospo when are you thinking you will have some time to work on it? I'm happy to help where I can, I'm just unavailable all day today.
Hi just love the offhand joke me and kyle did might actually be a possible solution, and there is also a small part of me that find it funny to leverage arch to install fedora
NAll roads lead back to Arch Linux.
Hin the end linux ends up just being linux, weird how that works out
Hi want to try help with this too if i can 
FI still don't get why we need Arch ISO instead of normal one, besides the harder work comment from Noel
Fwhat are the issues with new Fedora installer?
NThe issue is creating an offline installer using the existing Fedora tooling.
NAll solutions I've seen have been net installs.
NOr requiring a live rebase.
FAh, I forgot about offline installers when I started to use online ones.
FIt's just nice that you're always installing the latest image
NYeah. An offline installer will be more reliable for things like the steam deck.
NOr users that have slower Internet.
NWe could still probably support an offline and an online installer with this solution.
NBecause the major difference would be if we do an OSTree deploy from an online registry vs one that is included in the ISO.
NWe also may be able to program some retry logic if the deploy fails which would be harder to do in anaconda.
FPlot twist: Fedora sees our work, ditches their installer & switches to ours instead
KI'll point you to the repo when I have it set up
KFirst step is just getting a live CD made
KThen we get to figure out os-install
Hawesome, hopefully i will be able to understand it and help 
KOccurred to me that because this is a live CD, it solves our lack of a virutal keyboard issue too
