Both Bazzite and Silverblue crash during install
I'm trying to set up a dual boot system across two nvme drives (each drive has its own EFI partition - one drive Windows, the other Linux). This works fine on more classic Linux distros like regular Fedora, Ubuntu, and stuff. But both Bazzite and Silverblue fail to install. The Anaconda installer crashes at the stage where it starts unpacking the OS image. I use manual partitioning to manually set the partitions I want for /, /boot/efi/, and /var/log/. The formatting stage appears to work, then it crashes while unpacking/copying the OS image.
The big reason for the two drive setup is to make it harder for Windows to screw something up (short answer). 😛
Again, this drive/partition setup has worked super well in the past so I'm at a loss why it would suddenly fail on an immutable distro. Any advice or hints would be appreciated.
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Your partitioning is most likely conflicting. Look at the manual partitioning guide here: https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot_setup_guide/
Dual Boot Preliminary and Post-Installation Setup Guide - Bazzite D...
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I had thought about that. Hence why I'm using two nvme drives. I don't touch Windows's EFI partition at all - I install to the second drive, creating a second EFI partition for the Linux OS install in the process, and then have my BIOS use that when booting.
And again, this approach works for non-immutable Linux OSes just fine. So I'm having difficulty understand why it would suddenly fail for an immutable OS.