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    Installing Proxmox with ext4 drive

    Hi all, Quick question - when installing Proxmox, you are presented the option of choosing which disk to install it on and some advanced configuration options (i.e. hdsize, swap file size, etc.) if I am installing Proxmox on a device with two drives (a 500GB drive and a 1TB drive) and am...
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    Default install size

    It seems as if the default install sets local at 100 GB. That's way overkill for my scenarios. Is there a way to change that upon install or after install (before adding VM's)?
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    Split SSD

    Hi i’m new add proxmox. I have a nuci5 with a 500 gb ssd disk and will install proxmox on the ssd disk. But how can i set that i use 100 gb of that disk for the proxmox and the rest for vm storage?
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    [SOLVED] Black screen after GRUB during install

    I'm attempting to resurrect an old PC and dip my toes into the Proxmox waters. I've run into a snag at the very beginning of this and have tried several solutions to no avail. The issue: Immediately after the 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' message the screen goes black and nothing happens. The...
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    Newbie Install Proxmox RAID-Z1 on different Sized Disks

    Hi, I'm new to Proxmox, ZFS, and Linux so I'm setting up a test rig to play around a bit and see if I like it. I've got 3 different sized spare disks: 320 GB x 2 (different manufacturers) and 500GB that I'd like to use just to play with, ideally in RAID-Z1. I'm happy that I'd only get the...
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    [SOLVED] Installing Proxmox In VPS Digital Ocean Debian 10 Still Not Work Access Browser

    Hello I am a new user here, I have a little problem, I bought vps Specifications: Ram: 4GB Disk: 80GB OS: Debian 10 from digital ocean, I tried to install proxmox with the steps here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster after I tried to install, I still failed to...
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    Recreate LVM Thin

    I've installed Proxmox on top of Debian and now I lack LVM Thin. Now I can't create VM with local storage. Is it possible to simple recreate it somehow? Or the easiest way is to simply reinstall this node?
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    [SOLVED] Installer displays only upper left corner

    Hi, I am new to the whol vm and server world and need your help to get into it. When I am trying to install proxmox (6.1 and 6.2) I get a properly displayed install screen. When I chose install, the console opens up and does something. When it executes all prompts I get into the configure...
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    Kernel panic on new install

    Hi guys, I have installed the latest release on a 2nd system that I would like to use as a backup. Installation didn't go really smooth on the system itself so took the HDD out to install PVE with another system. That went fine, move the HDD, changed the network config and was good to go...
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    [Solved] Unable to initialize Samsung 970 Evo nvme SSD with GPT

    Hi, I'm new to proxmox. I installed the default regular way. When I logged in to the web gui I see local and local-lvm under the pve node. When I click the "initialize Disk with GPT" option it works for all disk except for the Samsung 970 Evo nvme SSD which fails with exit code 2. I checked...
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    [Solved] Dell T40 with Raid1 is destroyed at Proxmox 6.2 install

    Hi to everyone!! I'm installing on a brand new Dell T40 with 2x1TB disks a Proxmox 6.2. Before install Proxmox for a USB stick i go to the Dell configuration Utility and create a Raid1 then reboot and put the USB and run proxmox. The first problem is the installer detect both disks and not...
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    Install Proxmox on a specific partition

    Hi Community, im pretty new to Proxmox and trying to install Proxmox 7 VE for my first time. Im jsut to dumb to find the option, where i can choose the partition for the proxmox install. I only found an option, where i have to enter thedisk size and the fs type. Thanks in Advance!
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    [SOLVED] The installer could not find a supported hard disk (Dell R620 / H730 PERC Mini)

    I have tested out Proxmox (most recent release) using nested virtualization and now want to test it on a physical node: a Dell R630 server which has a SATA and 2 SAS drives installed. I create a bootable iso on a USB drive (DD mode) and booted to this and then selected the option to install but...
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    Proxmox VE Enterprise repos: why/needed?

    Hello, I'm quite new to ProxMox and of course didn't read anything, just installed the whole thing and had hard time to bring everything running, after switching from FreeNAS :) . Now, after a few quite critical almost-showstoppers (like corrupted VMs, cutting me off with bond-config, cron.d...
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    [SOLVED] Choosing a 2 Disk ZFS Raid1 During Install Only Uses One Disk

    I created a test VM using VMWare Fusion 11.5 with VM Passthrough Enabled and two 20 GB disks. Despite choosing RAID1 and /dev/sda and /dev/sdb during installation my zpool only has /dev/sda. According to https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS_on_Linux#_bootloader raid1 zfs for boot should be supported...
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    Automated / Unattended install via ISO method?

    Hi All - newbie to Proxmox here. My apologies if this has been covered here, but I've spent the last 2 days searching for an answer to this... I'm automating PXE install of Proxmox ISO (6.1) via the Digital Rebar Platform (DRP) solution. I have the install working, after a I "re-master" the...
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    [SOLVED] Kein Netzwerk nach der Installation

    Hallo, ich habe gerade einen Proxmox, mit ZFS RAID1, aufgesetzt und habe nach der Installation kein Netzwerk. Auch die Leuchten an der Ethernet-Schnittstelle blinken nicht. Gibt es hierfür eine einfache Lösung? unter /etc/ gibt es den Ordner Network nicht. Danke schon mal für Hilfe.
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    Installation fails to start. No network adapters found. Mellanox connectx-2

    Hi, I was planning on switching from just using Ubuntu Server 18.04 to Proxmox 6.1 and virtualizing my existing Ubuntu server. I've ran in to an issue however. When trying to install Proxmox I get the error No network adapters found. The board I am using is an old z97 board with a core i5...
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    Issue while Installing Proxmox on Debian Buster pve-ssl.key: failed to load local private key

    I am attempting to install Proxmox on Debian Buster by following https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster. Output of journalctl -xe -b -u pve* --no-hostname (full log is attached as pve-journal.log.txt) Jan 28 14:47:54 pveproxy[2160]: worker exit Jan 28 14:47:54...
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    [SOLVED] Licensed PVE 6.x on Debian Buster

    I am attempting to install PVE6.x on a custom Debian Buster install, and wanted to avoid having to go through package downgrade hell. Currently I am at the point where I would add the Proxmox repos to Debian, but I cannot use the enterprise repos to do the package installation (no license...