Install poxmox on a partition and not on the whole disk?
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I don't think that the Proxmox installer supports that. You could first install Debian (where you can setup/choose the partitions in their installer) and install Proxmox on top of it.
EDIT: Alternatively, install Proxmox within a VM (like VirtualBox or VMWare) on a smaller disk. Copy that virtual disk to a physical partition and fixup the boot process manually. That's how I install new versions of Proxmox: by installing it first on ZFS whitin a VM inside Proxmox and then mirror the ZFS pool to a real drive partition.
EDIT: Alternatively, install Proxmox within a VM (like VirtualBox or VMWare) on a smaller disk. Copy that virtual disk to a physical partition and fixup the boot process manually. That's how I install new versions of Proxmox: by installing it first on ZFS whitin a VM inside Proxmox and then mirror the ZFS pool to a real drive partition.
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@leesteken this is an interesting approach.
How do you copy the virtual disk to the physical partition? do you use clonezilla or similar software?
Thank you,
How do you copy the virtual disk to the physical partition? do you use clonezilla or similar software?
Thank you,
I passthrough a physical drive and add that as a mirror of the virtual ZFS pool (with ESP) inside the VM. Then I transport that half of the mirror to another system (and fix the bootloader).
Boot from a USB Linux distribution with ZFS support (like the Proxmox installer), chroot into the filesystem on the drive (with bind mounts to proc, sys, dev, etc.) like when doing a GRUB rescue/repair and reinstall/configure the Proxmox bootloader (which is not always GRUB). The details depend on your actual installation.