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Proxmox: Bootable installation disk

Proxmox: Bootable installation disk

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Proxmox: Bootable installation disk

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- [Instructor] A hypervisor is a specialized type of an OS optimized for installing other OS's on top of itself. Installing a hypervisor is fairly simple. You need a blank USB drive to follow along because we'll use it to store a bootable Proxmox image. This process will wipe out everything on the drive and replace it with Proxmox installation files. Make sure that you back up anything important before trying this. Let's first visit the Proxmox website to download the installation image. There are several options, but let's go for VE 5.2. Save the isofile. Click on download. And click OK. This file contains all the files you need to create an installation disc. By the way, are you noticing that I am doing this on Linux? You can do this on other OS's too, but the Ubuntu Linux distribution I am using has a built-in utility called DD that will make our task easier. Now, plug in your USB into a computer. The OS automatically recognizes it and displays an icon, as you can see here. We use…

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