diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm
index 7f67c2cfb..db3572b5a 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/anaconda.pm
@@ -2134,6 +2134,15 @@ sub copycd
             my @ol_version = split /[- ]/, $desc;
             $distname = "ol" . $ol_version[1];
         }
+        elsif ($desc =~ /Fedora/)
+        {
+            # Attempt to auto-detect for Fedora OS, the first element
+            # (after " ") has typically been the version
+            # ex: Fedora 34
+            #
+            my @fedora_version = split /[- ]/, $desc;
+            $distname = "fedora" . $fedora_version[1];
+        }
         elsif ($desc =~ /^[\d\.]+$/)
         {
             open($dinfo, $mntpath . "/.treeinfo");
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/fedora/compute.fedora34.pkglist b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/fedora/compute.fedora34.pkglist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f23b1dcf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/fedora/compute.fedora34.pkglist
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#Please make sure there is a space between @ and group name
+wget
+vim-minimal
+nfs-utils
+rsync
+net-tools
+openssh-server
+util-linux-ng
+rsyslog
+openssl
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/fedora/compute.fedora34.tmpl b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/fedora/compute.fedora34.tmpl
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..50866c82a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/install/fedora/compute.fedora34.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../rh/compute.rhels8.tmpl
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