Real test on Fedora 44 / Anaconda 44.30-2.fc44 (bypassing the liveinst
wrapper, which explicitly rejects kickstart on live media) confirmed
the documented restriction firsthand rather than just by reading
about it: --liveinst --kickstart in text mode silently drops rootpw/
user directives (require full manual re-entry, no error), and cmdline
mode exits cleanly with CmdlineError naming Installation Destination,
Root password, and User creation as unfinished despite being fully
specified in the kickstart.
Reimplementing install logic to bypass Anaconda entirely was
considered and explicitly rejected. Next step is re-evaluating
Ubuntu/Debian-based installer media instead of Anaconda's live mode;
switching Fedora to the officially supported inst.ks=/liveimg pattern
(separate netinstall media) remains a last resort.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
