O.K. where do I start? So I've dabbled a little with Proxmox before. I've got it running on a 6th gen HP ML330, i'm absolutely over the moon with this as a hypervisor. I couldn't be happier. I was over in England a couple of weeks ago and saw an advert on FB, somebody selling a 5th gen HP DL380 with no HDDs for £20. Additionally I had 7 spare 2.5" SAS drives sitting at home in Ireland. So I bought said server and though I'd put Proxmox on that as well.. This is where my troubles began, and also where my learning curve started.
1st attempt - Put latest release of Proxmox onto a USB and boot it from there.. ERROR: could not insert 'intel_rng': no such device - I didn't want to disable the MPS Table mode, so scrub that idea.
2nd attempt - Install Debian 11, then install ProxMox over the top of that. ERROR: unable to 'see' any HDD partitions. What I'm not mentioning here is the fun that I discovered to get the network adaptors working - BNX2 firmware.. hmm!
3rd attempt - Install Debian 9, upgrade to Debian 10 (and then upgrade to Debian 11). ERROR: couldn't find location of UID, system halted
4th attempt - Install Debian 9, install Proxmox VE over the top of that. Figuring at least, some older version of Proxmox is better than nothing. ERROR: couldn't find location of UID, system halted.
So, in just those four short sentences, I've briefly described my last three days of working with this server. At this point I'm going to throw it over to you guys for suggestions and help please.
My latest attempt went like this:
The main problem that I cannot resolve is the cciss/hspa driver issue, which is preventing me using a newer operating system. Maybe that in itself will be a quick fix suggestion from somebody and then I could just go with a more up to date Proxmox?
If I'm honest, I only 'dabble' with linux. Please be gentle!! Thanks in advance.
1st attempt - Put latest release of Proxmox onto a USB and boot it from there.. ERROR: could not insert 'intel_rng': no such device - I didn't want to disable the MPS Table mode, so scrub that idea.
2nd attempt - Install Debian 11, then install ProxMox over the top of that. ERROR: unable to 'see' any HDD partitions. What I'm not mentioning here is the fun that I discovered to get the network adaptors working - BNX2 firmware.. hmm!
3rd attempt - Install Debian 9, upgrade to Debian 10 (and then upgrade to Debian 11). ERROR: couldn't find location of UID, system halted
4th attempt - Install Debian 9, install Proxmox VE over the top of that. Figuring at least, some older version of Proxmox is better than nothing. ERROR: couldn't find location of UID, system halted.
So, in just those four short sentences, I've briefly described my last three days of working with this server. At this point I'm going to throw it over to you guys for suggestions and help please.
My latest attempt went like this:
Code:
- Specify static IP address, 'nano /etc/network/interfaces'
- Add hosts entry, 'nano /etc/hosts'
- Check with 'hostname --ip-address' which should return your static IP address
- 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-install-repo.list'
- 'wget http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/stretch/proxmox-ve-release-5.x.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-5.x.gpg'
- 'chmod +r /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-ve-release-5.x.gpg'
- 'apt update && apt full-upgrade && apt dist-upgrade'
- Reboot
- 'apt install proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi' (UNABLE TO LOCATE THE PACKAGE)
- Edit / Update Repos in sources.list to include:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve stretch pve-no-subscription (IGNORING THE DUPLICATION ERROR WHEN UPDATING)
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch-security main contrib
- 'apt update && apt full-upgrade && apt dist-upgrade'
- Reboot
- I noticed Proxmox mentioned on the Grub menu, which was nice
- Retrying 'apt install proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi' (SUCCESS)
- apt remove os-prober
- Reboot (it couldn't find location of UID, system halted - Awful camera phone photo attached)The main problem that I cannot resolve is the cciss/hspa driver issue, which is preventing me using a newer operating system. Maybe that in itself will be a quick fix suggestion from somebody and then I could just go with a more up to date Proxmox?
If I'm honest, I only 'dabble' with linux. Please be gentle!! Thanks in advance.
