<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi Martin,</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the double post and thanks for your reply.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately the datacenter people are not very flexible, so I will wait for Proxmox VE1.2 or switch to OVH since they have Proxmox already installed.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again</div><div>SB</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De :</span></b> Martin Maurer <martin@proxmox.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> sylver_b <sylver_b@yahoo.com>; pve-user@pve.proxmox.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b>
Mercredi, 6 Mai 2009, 11h55mn 56s<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> RE: [PVE-User] How to install Proxmox without CD ?<br></font><br>Hi,<br><br>first, pls do not double post (forum and list). But ok, you do not got an answer so I understand it.<br><br>we (proxmox) do not support this way of installation currently. Some user already played with alternative installations, just search the forums.<br><br>Beginning with Proxmox VE 1.2 (based on Lenny, available soon), we will maintain a howto for installing Proxmox VE on an existing Debian Lenny (but this is also not the supported way but we describe it) - I assume this will help here.<br><br>BTW: the datacenter guys can also just install the ISO for you.<br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Martin Maurer<br><br><a ymailto="mailto:martin@proxmox.com" href="mailto:martin@proxmox.com">martin@proxmox.com</a><br><a href="http://www.proxmox.com" target="_blank">http://www.proxmox.com
</a><br><br>____________________________________________________________________<br><br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a>] On Behalf Of sylver_b<br>Sent: Mittwoch, 06. Mai 2009 12:00<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com" href="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com">pve-user@pve.proxmox.com</a><br>Subject: [PVE-User] How to install Proxmox without CD ?<br><br>Hello all,<br><br>It's now been few days I'm trying to install Proxmox on a server hosted by a colocation provider. I have access to the console and can also boot the system on a rescue mode (some sort of ubuntu livecd). <br><br>I've read that many distributions (including debian) allow installing the OS without the CD, as long as I mount
the ISO image and copy initrd.img + the kernel (linux26 for proxmox) in my boot partition, copy all the install files on a partition outside root and then change grub menu to reflect the new changes and reboot the box. Unfortunately no matter what I do, the system always freeze when initrd and linux26 are loaded ... Am I missing something somewhere ? Is there any way to install proxmox without the CD ?<br><br>Thanks in advance for your help,<br>SB<br><br>ps: below what I've added in grub's menu.lst:<br>title PROMOX (New installation)<br>root (hd0,0)<br>kernel /boot/linux26 vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr ramdisk_size=16777216 rw quiet splash=silent root=/dev/sda4<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img<br><br>and /ISO contains all the CD content - mounted under :<br>/dev/sda4 4.1G 683M 3.3G 18% /ISO<br><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div></div><br>
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