How do I install Bazzite on a pre-existing partition?
I’m trying to dual-boot windows and bazzite together and at the install drive page, I can’t see any partitions. Just the drives themselves. How can I get my partitions to show up? Any tutorial online only has 1 drive and it’s on a steamdeck
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Resize your windows partition so you have free space on the drive
And then auto partition the free space
Note that we don't recommend dual booting this way, it's better to have them on separate drives
Windows has a habit of eating your boot priority
I can’t re-partition my Windows drive, I have a 7tb Hard drive that I want to partition for it
I shrunk the drive, I’ll come back later if I can find how to get this done
Is there any specific option for this? I don’t want to lose any data on that drive
I’ve partitioned, and the free space on the one selected is the amount I left as free space on windows
Also, selecting it causes that
In short:
You need 3 separate partitions for bazzite
1. EFI System partition, on a different disk as your system boot drive.
2. Boot partition
3. System partition
And also, manual partitioning isn't supported by upstream
Be careful while doing this
My recommendation remains a separate drive
It isn’t clear on how to do this, and I’m also unable to use a separate drive as I have data on all of them
I’m trying to use partitions to keep my data
We understand what you like to do, but we have given you what is needed and recommended 😉
Ah
Bazzite isn't like any other Linux variant...