Unattended Proxmox 8.1 Installation

[YosefCohen]

Hey,
I'm trying to create an unattended Proxmox ISO for a bootable USB and for a PXE Installation,
Is there some guide available that I can use? (I've searched the web but unfortunately it was unsuccessful)

Thank you

 

[LnxBil]

I've searched the web but unfortunately it was unsuccessful

First hit is https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-proxmox-host-via-pxe.108281/

 

[Folke]

Hi,
unfortunately, unattended installation is not supported yet. There is some work being done to get it working, but I can't give you an ETA on when it is landing.

 

[esi_y]

First hit is https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-proxmox-host-via-pxe.108281/

There's absolutely nothing in there about unattended, it's PXE install discussion. And answering that he should do Debian unattended and then PVE is a piece of advice he didn't need to come to PVE forum to ask about.

 

[YosefCohen]

I discovered a method to accomplish this using a bootable USB. I utilized Ventoy, Preseed, and Ansible for the process. It works perfectly!
https://github.com/YosefCohen877/USB-Unattended-Proxmox/tree/main

 

[LnxBil]

I discovered a method to accomplish this using a bootable USB. I utilized Ventoy, Preseed, and Ansible for the process. It works perfectly!
https://github.com/YosefCohen877/USB-Unattended-Proxmox/tree/main

Nice. Thank you for reporting back.

 

[esi_y]

I discovered a method to accomplish this using a bootable USB. I utilized Ventoy, Preseed, and Ansible for the process. It works perfectly!
https://github.com/YosefCohen877/USB-Unattended-Proxmox/tree/main

There's a lot in there. Is that all manually from you or something sourced off elsewhere? I only ask because I wonder if all that is necessary to make it to the finish line. Also, why is there a drone picture for the deployment?

NB: (I do not work at Proxmox)

   - name: Remove no valid sub popup
      ansible.builtin.replace:
        path: /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js
        regexp: >-
          (^\s+)(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title:\s+gettext\('No valid subscription)
        replace: '\1void({ //\2'

Really?

 

[exponentielhippy]

Hi all, if you're interested, i have at home a 6 proxmox nodes in a cluster in an hyper-V nested environnement, that i've deployed with a simple pxe server on debian. I've created preseeded files to install proxmox 7.x or 8.x on the right version on debian. I used lvm-thin for my needs. The partitionning is also made for my needs. These preseeds file are very generic for deploying simple debian 11 or 12 distros, or an entire proxmox 7 or 8 node. Of course, this work can be improved and I continue to improve it. I was able to use it to deploy to physical servers too. Best regards

 

[Kingneutron]

Hi all, if you're interested, i have at home a 6 proxmox nodes in a cluster in an hyper-V nested environnement, that i've deployed with a simple pxe server on debian. I've created preseeded files to install proxmox 7.x or 8.x on the right version on debian. I used lvm-thin for my needs. The partitionning is also made for my needs. These preseeds file are very generic for deploying simple debian 11 or 12 distros, or an entire proxmox 7 or 8 node. Of course, this work can be improved and I continue to improve it. I was able to use it to deploy to physical servers too. Best regards

Post it on github or the like

 

[YosefCohen]

There's a lot in there. Is that all manually from you or something sourced off elsewhere? I only ask because I wonder if all that is necessary to make it to the finish line. Also, why is there a drone picture for the deployment?

NB: (I do not work at Proxmox)

   - name: Remove no valid sub popup
      ansible.builtin.replace:
        path: /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js
        regexp: >-
          (^\s+)(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title:\s+gettext\('No valid subscription)
        replace: '\1void({ //\2'

Really?

I need to update the repo, I did a lot of changes.
i did all manually without any sources (because there is no sources :/ )
the drone just to check the Ventoy customization