Installer internet connection

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@solene

If you do so, you would need network access at boot time, which isn’t supported in Qubes OS as the network is done in a separate qube, in a VM that must be loaded from the disk. It’s not possible to use a network storage to start the VM allowing network…

It’s possible with a hack:

Network-bootable Qubes installation

I am seting up a Qubes machine as a home server, which can be booted from LAN using dropbear. I know there are security implications about installing packages in dom0 and enabling networking during boot time, but I assume it is still by far securer to use Qubes in such configuration than other monolithic OS. AntiEvilMaid or TrenchBoot would be one benefit for choosing network-bootable Qubes as server OS. I am stuck maybe because Qubes is restricting network dracut module by somewhat way. Cou…

I’m not sure about enabling networking in installer but it could be possible as well.