Homelab: 1 - Installing Proxmox

Ideas on setting up Proxmox on an HP Elitedesk mini

[Intro:] I really struggled getting thoughts together on what, if anything, would be interesting to say here. Setting up proxmox itself is not an over-explain-able activity. Any GPT will walk one through it as well as any other guide.

Differences to Tailscale Video

In part 0, the great Tailscale video was introduced and a few issues in following it were mentioned.

Taking notes on installing proxmox for this system, a few differences arose:

• No WiFI
• No KVM -> used a monitor
• FQDN: proxmox.local -> not a domain I own
  • This is noteworthy in that it is indicated that a FQDN input is required on setup. This turns out to be relatively unimportant
• gateway difference and spelled out 192.168.1.1
  • Proxmox wants a default gateway, on a (UK) TalkTalk base router, this is 192.168.1.1
• CIDR -> the IP of proxmox
  • It isn’t immediately clear what to input for a CIDR: it is the IP of the proxmox host on the home network
• Update from ssh terminal (same)
• login to proxmox browser via root , not email (and default Linux PAM , not VE)
  • In the Tailscale video, no mention of logging in as default root is made, nor is that a Realm needs to be selected (In this case Linux PAM standard authentication)

Conclusion

If ever repeating the process, better notes will be taken.