diff --git a/nodito.md b/nodito.md index a2b98e2..1e368a5 100644 --- a/nodito.md +++ b/nodito.md @@ -25,3 +25,20 @@ Some notes from assembling: Some other notes: - The Fractal fits even more drives than I thought. Beside having the funny design shelves to store 8 drives, it can also have two more big drives in the floor of the motherboard area and two thin SSD like drives in the front cover of the case. - The box fans are not PWM, but fixed. They come with a switch behind with three positions (H/M/L). + +## BIOS Settings + +- In the Advanced Mode, AI Tweaker section, I set AI Overclock Tuner from AUTO to EXPO1 so that the RAM frequency is set to 5600MHz instead of 4800MHz. This way I can use the full frequency of the RAM sticks. +- I also changed the Q-Fan config from the default to "Silent". We'll see how hot the CPU gets with this one. +- Finally, there's this one called `Restore AC Power Loss` that I enabled. The idea is that, if power goes off unexpectedly and later comes back, the server will start on its own as soon as power comes in. + +## Installing Proxmox + +On 2025-10-26, I start installing Proxmox on nodito as an OS. I download version 9.0, ISO installer and flash it on a USB drive. + +Some notes of stuff I did during the install wizard: +- I set a ZFS pool in RAID0 with the default settings for the OS install. +- root pwd is noesfacilvivirenunmundo... +- Networking: I set nodito.rmip as the hostname and let other values default + +Once Proxmox was running, I assigned the static IP 192.168.1.139 to it by DHCP Binding in the router.