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martin-hinze

From the Fedora Container Base I download the newest distro package, in this moment this is release 20211231.0.
In the download folder of my Win 11 machine I receive the file Fedora-Container-Base-35-20211231.0.x86_64.tar.xz. In unzip it with 7-zip and obtain the file Fedora-Container-Base-35-20211231.0.x86_64.tar and rename it to something shorter like fedora-35-rootfs.tar.

I have no idea what might be wrong and even where to start looking for a solution.

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Jonathan Bowman

Were you able to extract the layer.tar file and rename that? The Fedora-Container-Base-35-20211231.0.x86_64.tar file will not work as a rootfs without further extraction. Hope this helps...

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martin-hinze

Thank you for your patience, I indeed failed to extract the layer.tar file, it is working fine now.
(Sorry for the late reply, I was offline for a few days.)