New to Proxmox - nothing seems to work

[Naggert]

Hi
I'm brand new to Proxmox and Linux!
I managed to install Proxmox on my old PC and uploaded a few Linux ISO files. So far so good.

Next step is to setup docker and access all my old data on NTFS discs. I've been at it for three hours and I'm tired, angry and about to cry. Everything I try fails and sets me back. It's like there is a prerequsite, for the prerequsite, for the prerequsite and every time I think I find the solution to my problem, I get set two steps back.

1. Can I use my NTFS discs or do I need to buy yet another 8TB HDD, format it with ext4 and copy all the data over?
2. Is it possible to copy paste just a simple textstring from my Windows computer through Proxmox and into the virtual Linux VM's? Say, to install docker without having to manually type every single command? I use Windows because it limits my exposure to Linux and even more errors.

I've read a dozen different guides and pasted / written like 50 different commands, but everything fails!

 

[Pifouney]

Hey,

Sorry begginning by that, yours question are not in the good forum. Proxmox is a Hardware Virtualization technology, that means you've a minimum knownledge on how work many things on Linux Operating System.

Secondary, yours question take place in beginners forum ( like Ubuntu, linuxMint, or other oriented for beginners), where yours basics question found theirs answers, and people that have time for that.

Now, for answer you, yes, yours NTFS disks can be Read/writed by Linux operating systems. BUT, in linux world, ntfs is a BAD filesystem... Noww that we're clean on this idea, many choices are offered to you: passthrough the entire disk to your VM for use it with a Windows Operating System (ntfs forcing that), or you can take the time for move yours datas to another FS. For this second choice, the more easiest way is to buy the same disk capacity, formatt it to watheveryouwant, then move yours datas, and won 8TB disk capacity.

Other way can be opened, but, honnestly, they're difficult without a minimum (another time) CLI notion.

2) Yes, you can access to your linux CLI very easyly with SSH protocol. Then, once ssh-connected, you can copy- paste from yours windows tutorials to your VM. But please, take time to googling this things, this forum isn't made for this kind of subjects...

Cordialy

 

[aabraham]

Hi
I'm brand new to Proxmox and Linux!
I managed to install Proxmox on my old PC and uploaded a few Linux ISO files. So far so good.

Next step is to setup docker and access all my old data on NTFS discs. I've been at it for three hours and I'm tired, angry and about to cry. Everything I try fails and sets me back. It's like there is a prerequsite, for the prerequsite, for the prerequsite and every time I think I find the solution to my problem, I get set two steps back.

1. Can I use my NTFS discs or do I need to buy yet another 8TB HDD, format it with ext4 and copy all the data over?
2. Is it possible to copy paste just a simple textstring from my Windows computer through Proxmox and into the virtual Linux VM's? Say, to install docker without having to manually type every single command? I use Windows because it limits my exposure to Linux and even more errors.

I've read a dozen different guides and pasted / written like 50 different commands, but everything fails!

Hi Naggert, I'm really sorry you are having such a hard time. Let me just summarize quickly whether I understood what you are attempting do correctly:

- You have two computers, one with Windows on it and the other with PVE on it. And you are trying to copy your data from your Windows machine to your PVE machine, correct?

- After copying your data, you would like to use your PVE machine for running Docker images.

(Buying yourself a new disk will not be neccessary.)