that was an incredible pain in the ass!!!
ok, to sum up:
i've now got Proxmox installed. i am working on configuring that. this is a piece of cake by comparison, though i had some network hiccups in getting it to work. i have a /24 where i let the router have the lower half for DHCP and the upper half always belongs to "me" for lab purposes, so i'll just give the upper half to Proxmox.
right now i'm just letting Proxmox update. next step after that is getting the AI tools working because that was the main thing i was doing before. i have everything backed up so it shouldn't be an issue to move it over, but setting up the OS side of things will no doubt be annoying.
ok, to sum up:
- i had to get the upper backplane of disks to work. they had never worked, and i believe it's because they were never configured at the machine level (not OS level)
- so i needed the Smart Storage Administrator app, which was no longer on the server (for some reason)
- this was an astonishing pain in the ass to get going, but ultimately i had to get a several-years-old version of an ISO, extract a specific OS image from that, then make that image a bootable thumb drive
- once i did all that, i was able to see all the drives i added! woohoo!
- it took 5 fucking hours to get through this because of constant dead ends
i've now got Proxmox installed. i am working on configuring that. this is a piece of cake by comparison, though i had some network hiccups in getting it to work. i have a /24 where i let the router have the lower half for DHCP and the upper half always belongs to "me" for lab purposes, so i'll just give the upper half to Proxmox.
right now i'm just letting Proxmox update. next step after that is getting the AI tools working because that was the main thing i was doing before. i have everything backed up so it shouldn't be an issue to move it over, but setting up the OS side of things will no doubt be annoying.
the horrors persist, but so do we
(aka large mozz)
(aka large mozz)