Installing on USB stick

[jollyscots]

  A volume group called 'pve' already exists.

This is very simple.

You have an existing installation on you system drives/raid arrays

The Proxmox installer is a live linux environment. It scans all availble local storage devices, and detects all available LVM groups.

Since you had previously installed proxmox onto a local disk, this LVM group, 'pve', already exists.

Minor oversight of the Proxmox installer.

Boot up something else and erase all partition tables.

Cheers

 

[jollyscots]

hi,
Thank you for the tip !
Actually, I finally managed to install PVE on USB stick but going the Debian way... to discover that the PNY key was just a damned piece of sh!ù$* to the point that I couldn't make an upgrade without write errors :-(
I have now to buy (again) a handful of sticks so, if any one of you all have any recommandation on fast AND reliable gears... they'd be gratefully appreciated.
I'll try again when I'll have the HW, eventually leveraging your advise.
I'll update this thread...

Thanks in advance

Cough up an extra 10 bucks on a Corsair 16gb.