Installing Proxmox on a Turing Pi RK1

Thanks to soxrok2212 for providing the image that made this possible.

There is a youtube video for this at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXgI_YxMQrA

Once we have installed our new Debian 12 image, there are some basic things missing that we need to fix up.

If you type date you will probably find the date is wrong, lets fix that.

Edit the file /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf

Insert underneath the line with [Time]

[Time]
NTP=0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1.debian.pool.ntp.org 2.debian.pool.ntp.org 3.debian.pool.ntp.org

Save and close the file

Then do:

systemctl restart systemd-timedated.service
systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd.service

Using the date command should now give you the correct date.

We also need to fix up our locales.

Execute the following command, change the task- to suit your language.

apt -y install task-english locales-all

The do:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Choose the locales you want then select the appropriate default.

Now edit your hosts file

nano -w /etc/hosts

In my case I have 4 RK1 so I make mine this:

127.0.0.1	localhost
192.168.30.200  rk1-pve1.dcvoip.local
::1		localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1		ip6-allnodes
ff02::2		ip6-allrouters

Then edit /etc/hostname For each node, add the appropriate entry eg, for thye first node

rk1-pve1.dcvoip.local

Now reboot the node:

reboot

We are now ready to start installing proxmox

Execute the following commands:

echo 'deb [arch=arm64] https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pve bookworm port'>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pveport.list
curl -L https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pveport.gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pveport.gpg

apt update

apt install ifupdown2
apt install proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi

During the install a screen will pop up for configuring postfix, just accept the defaults or configure to suit.

You will also get a prompt near the end of the install:

Configuration file '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pveport.list'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** pveport.list (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?

Just accept the default

Once installed and before reboot we need to deal with our networking

Edit /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface end0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
	address 192.168.30.200/24
	gateway 192.168.30.1
	bridge-ports end0
	bridge-stp off
	bridge-fd 0

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

Then:

systemctl mask systemd-networkd

Once we have rebooted after this, DNS will not work so we need to fix that.

Edit nano -w /etc/systemd/resolved.conf

Insert whatever name servers you want underneath [Resolve] In my case:

[Resolve]
DNS=192.168.30.1
FallbackDNS=8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Finally, set you root password:

passwd

Then reboot

reboot

You should now have a working proxmox server available at https://:8006