Affordable Powerhouse: Building an Incredible P700 Lenovo Homelab on a Budget

Cradle to the Grave review of setting up a homelab with proxmox

00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Lenovo P700 My Hardware of choice
05:39 - Intermission pitfalls of buying 2nd hand
06:08 - Bios overview
06:39 - Booting off Ventoy
07:50 - Proxmox Setup
10:17 - Web UI Login
10:30 - Adding Community Updates
11:20 - Updating Proxmox
13:24 - Summary & teaser for Part 2



Hardware Specs

Lenovo P700
E5-2620 v3 x 2 CPU
72GB of memory now
500GB SSD and 3 x 2TB HDD
750ti - will upgrade that soon

Things you will need

Proxmox Iso - https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads
Ventoy Video -    • Ventoy The Ultimate USB - Windows Bui...  

Commands for Proxmox
In the shell

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add lines
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PVE pve-no-subscription repository provided by proxmox.com,
NOT recommended for production use
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bullseye pve-no-subscription
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Comment out the line in

nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list

with a #

finally updates

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

reboot now