Description

Build a simple generic network install image using lorax, and check it boots.

Setup

Become root, with sudo su or su
Install the lorax package version you wish to test, on a system with a decent amount of disk space available
Create a working directory for the test (on a partition with a good amount of disk space free), e.g. mkdir -p /var/tmp/loraxtest, and cd to it
Set SELinux to permissive mode, with setenforce Permissive

Create the test image. The basic form of the command to run is lorax -p Fedora -v (version) -r (release) -s (repository URL) [-s (another repository URL)] ./results/
- Always create an image for the same release and arch as you have installed!
- You can usually use the release number for both -v and -r
- If you have Fedora 41 x86_64 installed, you could run lorax -p Fedora -v 41 -r 41 -s https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/x86_64/os/ -s http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/41/x86_64/ ./results/
- If you are testing lorax on a not-yet-stable release like Fedora 42, use the Everything repository from a Branched or Rawhide nightly compose (whichever one matches the release you're testing)
If the command runs successfully, it will produce a network install image as results/images/boot.iso. Try booting this image as usual (e.g. by attaching it to a virtual machine, writing it to a USB stick, or writing it to an optical disc) and running a default installation

The command should run successfully and produce a results/images/boot.iso file
The image should boot and install successfully (assuming no underlying problems in the compose it is built from - if you run into a problem, check if the official Everything network install image from the compose you used has the same problem)