Why does Anaconda, when launched from a bare-metal installation of stable Fedora, default to installing Rawhide?

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Well, Anaconda is in the repos, but it is not meant to be run by end users from their installed distro. It is used to build Fedora Live & Installer media. Also, Anaconda supports installing from a Live media, or from an installation media (or from network). It does NOT support installing from a non-live running Fedora installation (e.g. the Fedora installed on your HDD).

So, even if you get your installed Anaconda to install something, it'll download all required RPMs from internet and install on the target media. It won't use the installed packages in your system. And it is probably much easier to use a net install .iso rather than configuring your own Anaconda for that purpose.

Therefore, you probably would go with installing Fedora using your flash :)

This information is not only from Anaconda but there is also a product image which is designed specifically for Fedora release. This means that you have Anaconda without any information of product you want to install. These products are normally installed as a package to the installation iso and then read by Anaconda.

You can turn off the Rawhide updates, and turn on the regular updates by

sudo dnf config-manager --disablerepo rawhide -v
sudo dnf config-manager --enablerepo updates -v

and than to clean and downgrade

sudo dnf clean all

sudo dnf update -v --allowerasing

I think it would work, without any assurance, because your case is impossible in principle!!!

I wish it was like that!...... I have tried to install a complete copy of Fedora 27 Workstation Live, but Anaconda couldn't do the job. Now I am back on F26, but wouldn't take the risk to "Mass Rebuild Fedora 26" - as I had tried and it all ruined...