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    Installing on USB stick

    Hi, I have proxmox running on a HP microserver from a USB stick (albeit a 16gb). The only problem I saw is you need to boot with rootdelay=120 to let the LVM subsystem build. It looks like proxmox is trying to boot from you hard disk not your pendrive, unless your pendrive is on /dev/sdb1? It...
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    Actually looking back, it might just be me being a n00b heh..Long day!
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    Hi, not sure whats going on but Tom originally posted maxswap=1. I did try the other way as I read the other threads. Maybe he edited it?
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    OK sussed it :-) linux maxroot=1 maxswap=1
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    Hi, just trying this with 1.8 and its saying cannot find kernel maxroot=1 Do I need more info on the boot line? Thanks
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    Thanks very much for your help. I will try this now :-)
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    Yes correct. At present I have proxmox 1.7 packages running on squeeze but Id like it standard. I presume there is something in the installer that checks for disk and I could possibly hack the perl for that, then make an ISO from that for installs
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    4 gig. It may of course that proxmox is trying to make a swap file too big. The blades have 48 gig of RAM
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    heh yeah thought of that but machines in a datacentre a long way away. Also will be swapping from vmware to proxmox so would like to empty one blade remotely, then reinstall proxmox over hypervisior via onboard administrator.
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    Installing on USB stick

    Hi, I wish to install proxmox on a USB stick and run all VMs from network storage. (Im aware this is not supported) It seems proxmox install is looking for a certain amount of space to be free after install on the machines 'hard drive' Is there a way to disable this disk size check so it can be...