From the course: Proxmox Virtual Environment Essential Training

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Install Proxmox VE

Install Proxmox VE

- [Instructor] Okay, let's install Proxmox VE on our host. Proxmox does support unattended installation with a pre-seed file, but we'll go through the manual process here so we can see what's going on. First, we'll need to create installation media using the Proxmox VE ISO file. That file is available from the Proxmox website, so let's get that downloaded. I'll find the Proxmox VE ISO installer section here and click download. We can use one of various tools to put the ISO file on a USB thumb drive to create installation media, or if you're so inclined, you can burn it to an optical disc like it's the year 2000. Tools like Balena Etcher and Rufus make it easy to create bootable USB disks, or we can use dd at the command line after double and triple checking that we have the correct hardware identifier for our USB device. Once the download's complete, I'll open my tool of choice and choose a flash from file. In my downloads, I'll find the Proxmox ISO file and select it, and then I'll…

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