can i move a bazzite installation to another drive?
i have been using windows since 3.1 and finally had enough. So I'm trying to switch to bazzite.
after a weeks trying to download and i dont know how many download restarts i set up a dual boot with Bazzite on a USB ssd and windows on my internal drive in my alienware laptop.
after running dual boot for a couple of weeks the windows boot sector got borked so now I want to instal Bazzite on the internal drive.
unfortunately the stick I had my ISO on is now corrupted as well and I dont seem to able to complete another download.
Is there a way to just migrate the Bazzite installation from the USB drive onto my laptop?
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Have you tried using a download manager while downloading the ISO, some users have had great sucess with using a VPN and downloading from another region
i have tried a download manager but the download is not resumable so it just stops... the furthest i got was just over 4 GB...
I am stuck using my 4g phone as my internet connection but steam downloads complete with no issues...
i asked a friend to download the bazzite iso for me but even though he has a decent landline connection he didn't have much more success.
In that case, I'd recommend downloading Fedora Kinoite, install it and then just rebase to bazzite. There are instructions for rebasing on the Bazzite website
Pretty sure Kinoite even has a torrent, so you'll have no issuea with resuming the download
Assuming that you going with Bazzite KDE. If you want Bazzite Gnome then you'd want to go with Fedora Silverblue
hrm so that's a no then to the question of moving the installation over, i guess.
I tried a fedora download last night but that didn't complete either .. hadnt checked for torrents yet though
either way. thanks for replying 🙂
Yeah you can't copy files from the installer manually and have a working system sadly.
not sure if it's ok to continue here or if I should open a new post....
finally managed to get a download completed... now it won't instal.
From what I can make out the issue is the fact that the 2 nvme drives in my laptop are configured as RAID 0.
there is no option in the BIOS mentioning anything about RAID and I am at a loss as to how to get rid of that.
any help would be greatly appreciated
getting this error during installation
look for a setting for storage mode or something in the bios
i think that is iRST raid or RST, set it to ahci instead.
i found it thank you.
i first had the hdd option switched from raid to uefi and forgot about it .. and of course did it in the wrong order (first changed it in bios then tried to delete the partitions)
it is now sorted and i successfully rebased fedora to bazzite 🙂
i'm so done with microsoft!
Good news. Hope you enjoy it 🙂