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)

Config basics

su
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install sudo mc nmap powertop fail2ban 

• sudo visudo

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

• /etc/network/interfaces

allow-hotplug enp2s0
iface enp2s0 inet static
    address 192.168.111.11/24
    gateway 192.168.111.1

• /etc/resolv.conf

domain local
nameserver 192.168.111.1

• /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.111.10  proxmox.local  proxmox

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