Hoped to acquire Virtualization skills on my laptop, host OS windows 11 home
1. Three usb flash drives until I got one that "allegedly" downloaded the iso properly. I used Rufus to format the flash drive and used copilot AI for questions about the process.
•first usb: 32G download wouldn't even begin and before trying to start I started getting error messages
•second usb: 32G download seemed to be working but I got error messages referencing the previous attempt and for some reason they referred to the flash drive as D and not E as it had initially referred to it..so the download got all the way to 99 percent and then an error message popped up about something being too big. So I figured (since I was basically doing a glorified version of winging it) maybe I need a smaller usb
•third usb: 8G download started was moving right along and I got another error message referring to one of the previous attempts and this time it referred to the previously used drive as F and I wondered why is the system still referencing tasks that have been closed and moved on from while its in the middle of a new task? Wtf right? I assumed it was referring to the previous attempts because the third attempt download went right along and ended up completing and I dont remember everything because it all felt so sketchy at that point and I was worried about my pc..which I seem to have completely f^&#$d. So the iso downloaded to the drive and I got another error message or maybe 2 but it said complete so I went with it. I followed through the next steps and installed proxmox and after the installation I noticed that I was in what I believe was the alpine terminal? Ya? And I had the message to go configure the rest of it at the listed IP but I couldn't do it from my laptop the terminal was taking up the entire screen..now the rest of the details would prove redundant as they would just be my guidelines blind trudge through a completely foreign os all to come to the conclusion that..I think I erased windows lost all my data and but I did manage to configure in the gui from..ha my cell phone because that was my only other means of accessing a web browser..yeah I have no web browser accessible in my laptop I went back and switched the boot order just to see if I could boot back into it and I ran a systemctl something cmd and there was nothing windowsy listed in the drives...so...I do keep seeing stuff about removing the other drives that aren't being used..how do u do that with a laptop? And when it have the warning about everything will be erased I thought it meant the flash drive..but I don't know if the flash drive qas even inserted at the point that I remember seing that..I dunno it socks I was just going to reinstall it but I'll wait and see if this produces any results..I'm a no subscription queer so I know responses are not timely..they said user friendly ...and I cam tell that in the computer scope of things it definitely is but I'm that green im almost 36 and just now trying to learn this stuff ..I'm down to learn all day and am willing to try whatever you guys might suggest..I really want my laptop back so I mean even if I can just build a vm to get some semblance of familiarity and experience back that'd be great..I miss my microsoft 365 lol
1. Three usb flash drives until I got one that "allegedly" downloaded the iso properly. I used Rufus to format the flash drive and used copilot AI for questions about the process.
•first usb: 32G download wouldn't even begin and before trying to start I started getting error messages
•second usb: 32G download seemed to be working but I got error messages referencing the previous attempt and for some reason they referred to the flash drive as D and not E as it had initially referred to it..so the download got all the way to 99 percent and then an error message popped up about something being too big. So I figured (since I was basically doing a glorified version of winging it) maybe I need a smaller usb
•third usb: 8G download started was moving right along and I got another error message referring to one of the previous attempts and this time it referred to the previously used drive as F and I wondered why is the system still referencing tasks that have been closed and moved on from while its in the middle of a new task? Wtf right? I assumed it was referring to the previous attempts because the third attempt download went right along and ended up completing and I dont remember everything because it all felt so sketchy at that point and I was worried about my pc..which I seem to have completely f^&#$d. So the iso downloaded to the drive and I got another error message or maybe 2 but it said complete so I went with it. I followed through the next steps and installed proxmox and after the installation I noticed that I was in what I believe was the alpine terminal? Ya? And I had the message to go configure the rest of it at the listed IP but I couldn't do it from my laptop the terminal was taking up the entire screen..now the rest of the details would prove redundant as they would just be my guidelines blind trudge through a completely foreign os all to come to the conclusion that..I think I erased windows lost all my data and but I did manage to configure in the gui from..ha my cell phone because that was my only other means of accessing a web browser..yeah I have no web browser accessible in my laptop I went back and switched the boot order just to see if I could boot back into it and I ran a systemctl something cmd and there was nothing windowsy listed in the drives...so...I do keep seeing stuff about removing the other drives that aren't being used..how do u do that with a laptop? And when it have the warning about everything will be erased I thought it meant the flash drive..but I don't know if the flash drive qas even inserted at the point that I remember seing that..I dunno it socks I was just going to reinstall it but I'll wait and see if this produces any results..I'm a no subscription queer so I know responses are not timely..they said user friendly ...and I cam tell that in the computer scope of things it definitely is but I'm that green im almost 36 and just now trying to learn this stuff ..I'm down to learn all day and am willing to try whatever you guys might suggest..I really want my laptop back so I mean even if I can just build a vm to get some semblance of familiarity and experience back that'd be great..I miss my microsoft 365 lol
