Debian with Proxmox

Why not the Proxmox Installer?

• The Proxmox installer does not allow for manual partitioning and wipes the whole disk
• Debian allows manual partitioning

Installation of Debian

• https://www.debian.org/download.en.html
  • AMD64 netinst
  • (Non-graphical) Install (Non-expert)
  • Only install packages:
    • SSH server
    • Standard system utilities

Config basics

su
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install sudo mc nmap powertop fail2ban git
apt remove os-prober

• sudo visudo

%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
marcluer ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

• /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface enp2s0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet manual
        address 192.168.111.11/24
        gateway 192.168.111.1
        bridge-ports enp2s0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

• /etc/resolv.conf

domain local
nameserver 192.168.111.1

• /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.111.11  homeserver.local  homeserver

Install proxmox

• https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_13_Trixie
• https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_12_Bookworm