part 2. of the installation instructions is not very clear to me

some parts of the instructions are not very indicative on how to be done

Connect your bootable medium to your device and boot into it.
After connecting the device, boot into the Bazzite installer.
i connected my USB drive with Bazzite flashed in it, and what do i use to boot it ? do i have to do it from the BIOS ? or is it in the file explorer ?

https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/Installing_Bazzite_for_Desktop_or_Laptop_Hardware/#2-boot-bazzite

Installing Bazzite for Desktop/Laptop Hardware - Bazzite Documentation

Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 12:22 PM

You need to go into the BIOS of your device then find you USB stick

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:24 PM

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:25 PM

it should be indicated in the guide imo

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:28 PM

On my MSI BIOS, do i click on M-Flash ? Or somewhere else ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 12:31 PM

There should be boot options, but every bios looks different

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 12:31 PM

Can you send a screenshot?

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:33 PM

imma convert it to a .png

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 12:33 PM

Go to advanced mode

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:33 PM

and from there ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 12:34 PM

I dunno what your bios looks like sorry

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 12:34 PM

Look for the boot options

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:35 PM

I'm gonna send images

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:37 PM

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:37 PM

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 12:37 PM

I'll take a look once i'm at home shortly

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:51 PM

ok, @ping me when responding

0sad1•8/27/25, 12:52 PM

Iirc it was on settings-> something alongside of exiting

0sad1•8/27/25, 12:54 PM

Near the save and exit part you can choose booting option. Speaking from memory cause mine looks similar

0sad1•8/27/25, 12:55 PM

@DARKLOL680

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 12:56 PM

ok thanks

0sad1•8/27/25, 12:56 PM

Had a problem finding it too lol

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:12 PM

Is it Boot Override ?

DDARKLOL680 Is it Boot Override ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 1:14 PM

yes i think so

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:22 PM

Ok i found it

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:22 PM

I'm not gonna loose any data, right ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 1:24 PM

are you dual booting with windows? i recommend separate drives for both OSes

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:24 PM

Bazzite is on an external drive

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:24 PM

And yes i'm gonna dual boot

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:24 PM

I'm on the installer rn

DDARKLOL680 I'm not gonna loose any data, right ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 1:25 PM

just make sure to unselect the drive that has windows on it in the installer

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:25 PM

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:26 PM

It's the main ssd drive that has Windows

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:26 PM

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:28 PM

So which drive do i choose to install it ? is it fine if i install it on the same USB drive that i flashed Bazzite on it ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 1:28 PM

oh i thought you meant you were gonna install Bazzite on an external drive

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:29 PM

I will

DDARKLOL680 So which drive do i choose to install it ? is it fine if i install it on the sam...

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 1:29 PM

no you can't do that, if you don't have a second SSD drive then you'll have to make space on your primary SSD that has windows and install it alongside windows

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 1:30 PM

So it's fine to install it along side Windows 10 ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 1:37 PM

i think you need to make the Windows partition smaller from inside Windows first, at least that's what the official documentation says

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 1:37 PM

https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot_setup_guide/#__tabbed_1_1

Dual Boot Preliminary and Post-Installation Setup Guide - Bazzite D...

Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 2:23 PM

does the other drive has to be empty if i want to install Bazzite on it ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 2:24 PM

it doesn't have to be empty, but it should be at least 64gb in size (i recommend 256 or 512) and you should probably back up any data you have on it

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 2:25 PM

it has 1 Terabyte

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 2:27 PM

the problem is i don't know where to make a backup since i have no other drives big enough, there is 537 GB to backup

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 2:27 PM

and my main drive doesn't have enough space

DARKLOL680OP•8/27/25, 2:50 PM

any advice ?

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𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆•8/27/25, 3:17 PM

so I'm not 100% sure on how to proceed but you could boot back into Windows, make some free space for Bazzite (say 450G or so) then reboot into the installer and install it on the now empty partition

part 2. of the installation instructions is not very clear to me

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