Symptoms: When starting the Proxmox 7.x graphical installer, you get presented with the error message below. Installation aborted – unable to continue (type exit or CTRL-D to reboot) root@proxmox:/# When you try to manually start X server with startx you get the message: he log file at “/var/log/Xorg.1.log” for additional information.(EE) (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing lof file.…
Category: Home Server
Using SSH
What is SSH? SSH stands for Secure Shell. it is a cryptographic network protocol that provides secure remote access and control over a network. Installing SSH: sudo apt install openssh-server Activate the SSH-server: sudo systemctl start ssh Auto-start SSH-server on restart: sudo systemctl enable ssh Verify if SSH is running and will start automatically: sudo systemctl status ssh In the…
How to install and configure UFW – Uncomplicated FireWall
When hosting your own home-environment, you probably have some services exposed to the internet (webserver, mail,…). Good practice when exposing your server to the internet, is installing a firewall. In this case we will install and configure UFW on Debian 12. Installing UFW: sudo apt update sudo apt install ufw Setting up UFW Defaults: First we are going to deny…
Proxmox how to pass trough hard drives to a virtual machine
When working in a virtual environment, you probably want to pass trough your hard drives to a virtual machine such as Unraid or TrueNas. First, list your harddisks in proxmox. ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ The screenshot above lists the physical hard drives and their partitions (eq. – part1). next, in Proxmox, for each disk you want to pass trough to a…
Mount CIFS shares with credentials file
How to mount a CIFS-network-share with a credentials file. When you are working with virtual machines, mounting network drives is an important task. Mounting drives can be done manually, but when setting up a home-server, things like this should happen automatically. Mounting CIFS-share without permissions: Create a mountpoint: sudo mkdir /mnt/files Mount the share to the mountpoint: sudo mount //192.168.0.200/files…
Install Ubuntu via iPXE for UEFI
Install Ubuntu via iPXE for UEFI: Prerequisites: • iPXE • TFTP • NFS • DHCP Server First of all, let us download the needed ISO files for this project. Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.2 LTS Ubuntu 22.10 live server iPXE: iPXE can serve as a network boot server for both BIOS and UEFI systems. It’s open source, it can use many protocols…
Batch converting iPhone HEIC images to JPEG in CLI
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily convert your iPhone photo’s from HEIC files to JPEG files. Go to your Linux terminal Install libheif-examples sudo apt install libheif-examples -y Copy your HEIC images to a folder. CD into that folder. for f in *.HEIC; do heif-convert -q 100 $f $f.jpg; done All the HEIC-files in your current…