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Install Proxmox VE 9.2, every screen explained

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$ cat guide.md

Download the ISO and check it against the published checksum before writing it to a USB stick. A bad download fails late, in the middle of the install.
Boot the installer and accept the licence. No subscription and no licence key are needed; Proxmox VE is free.
Choose the target disk. The installer takes the whole disk: there is no dual boot and no shrinking an existing partition. On a single disk, pick ext4 unless you have a specific reason for ZFS or Btrfs.
Set country, timezone and keyboard layout, then the root password and an administrator email address.
Fill in the network screen field by field: hostname with a domain part, the static IP in CIDR form, the gateway, and a DNS server. This is the screen that decides whether you can reach the box afterwards.
Install, remove the USB stick and reboot. The console prints the URL to open.
Open that URL on port 8006, log in as root with the password you set, and accept the self-signed certificate warning.

$ cat troubleshooting.log — what failed before the verified run

✖ attempt 1 Expecting to keep the existing operating system on the disk.

→ fix The installer claims the entire disk. There is no dual boot and no resizing a partition, so anything already on that disk has to be backed up first or a second disk used.

✖ attempt 2 Install completes but the web interface is unreachable.

→ fix Almost always the network screen: an IP outside the LAN's range, a missing gateway, or the CIDR suffix left wrong. The video walks that screen field by field for this reason.

[01:23] operator download the ISO, verify the checksum

[02:46] operator choose the disk · ext4 vs ZFS vs Btrfs

[04:59] operator network screen, field by field

[06:04] operator install and reboot

[06:35] ✓ verified web interface reachable on the address set at install