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You do not need to do anything at this stage. If you monitor the booting process, you should see that USB Mass storage devices are detected. To start in debug mode, simply type at the prompt : debug (see screenshot below) Do not boot in normal mode.If you boot in normal mode, the system will reboot automatically because no cdrom device will be founded. If everything is correctly set, you will see the PROXMOX VE splash boot menu. In this step, you simply boot your machine from the usb stick you have just prepared.
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At this stage, you should have a bootable USB stick and you should be ready to plug this stick into your computer that will be hosting the ProxMox VE software Step 2 – Boot from USB in Debug mode
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So, my bootable USB stick looks like something like the screenshot belowĭo not forget to copy your proxmox iso image at the root of the Usb stick (see above screenshot). the boot folder contains what’s needed for the stick to boot in a minimal environment. Because we will be installing from an ISO image, we do not really need all these files. To save on disk space, you can delete all the folders except the boot folder. This is the default file structure coming from the PROXMOX VE binaries. At the end, if you explore the content of your usb stick, you will see something like this
You simply press create and you wait for the process to complete. Note that I have choosen for the distribution the option “Unlisted Linux ISO” Within the application, you specify which drive letter is your USB Stick and where is located the ISO file you want to use.
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You simply download the utility, double-click on the exe file and accept the license agreement. Step 1 – Creating/configuring your Bootable Usb Stickįor this post, I was using a Windows machine and decided to give a try to the usb universal installer.
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It might be possible to modify the init file and include the missing code to have the installer detecting USB devices and perform the installation from a USB Stick. Let’s try doing this right now ! Installing ProxMox VE from a USB Stick – Yes, you can !Īfter some tests (try and errors), I succeeded ( on 2 differents hardware configuration) to start the ProxMox VE installation from a USB Stick ! To perform the installation from the usb stick, you need to manually enter some commands from the terminal session.
At this point, we just need to find a way to have the system launching the setup routine even if no CDROM devices are detected.
More information about this can be found on the ProxMox VE forums (see these links ). The USB drive will boot without any problem but the ProxMox VE installer will not start and your system will reboot… This behavior can be explained by the fact that the script used by the ProxMox VE installer checks only for CDROM devices. So, I thought that by using utility such as unetbootin, I would transfer the ISO image into a bootable USB Stick and perform the installation from the USB… Well not quite ! I didn’t want to burn a new cdrom from the the ProxMox VE iso image. I came across this limitation during the re-installation of a test environment.
This is quite disappointing ! Especially when you know that Vmware or Hyper-V can be installed quite easily from a USB Stick…. Up to Version 1.7, there is no support for installing from a USB thumbdrive. In one of my previous post about ProxMox VE, I mentioned that “at the moment” it is not possible to perform a ProxMox VE installation from a bootable usb sitck. Proxmox VE 2.0 natively support installation from usb devices