Unable to create swap volume when installing PM VE 8.3

Teckors

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I have a PowerEdge M640 (VRTX) that I am attempting to install ProxMox VE 8.3 on, but I am unable to get past the "Creating LVM" step. I see an error that says "Failure: Unable to create swap volume". I am using a SanDisk 16GB flash drive to run the installer. I have tried using all install options available: GUI, Terminal, and Terminal Serial, as well as the debug version of these but I always see the same error.

These are some of the specs of my M640:
Storage: 13.09TiB
Memory: 192 GB
Processor: Intel Xeon(R) Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz

See attached files for images of the install process using the terminal UI.
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That's weird. Are you using hardware RAID on the PERC card?

Try setting swap size to 0, you can create a swapfile after install on rootfs or another drive/partition
 
Thanks for the quick reply!
I tried setting the swap size to 0 but it doesn't seem to work. It just gives me a slightly different error that says "Unable to create root volume"
I have my drives set up as RAID 6 (I have 10 drives setup in RAID and 1 hotswappable drive).
 
When I was attempting to install it to my RAID setup the first time I accidentally installed it to an SD card on the system. So the installer should work, but after that I have been unable to reinstall it on the main storage.
I can try to install it on a different standalone if you think that would help, but I'd need to go get one.
 

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