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 - https://youtu.be/9vV2_Nu60Jk Commands for Proxmox In the shell nano /etc/apt/sources.list Add lines --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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