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Lightweight distro for home server? (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm refurbishing an old PC to work as a home server for several stuff. I'm looking for a lightweight distribution to install in it, but with a decent package repository. A small image size will be appreciated, as I have slow bandwidth too.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the question I then have is, how hard would it be to virtualise my current Ubuntu server within Proxmox, both not having dealt with VMs before and having spent a lot of time on the server?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To transfer image 1:1 from disk to VM?

Im sure there is a way (a quick search will probably give you your answer fairly quickly) ... or just try Clonezilla, that way you can also revert back. As per usual with OS I would advise make a clean install on a new machine & transfer the rest manually, ... however I'm lazy and wound definitely try to image copypasta the disk.

VMs as such aren't really any different from regular machines, it's just that you define virtual machine parts, well, virtually (like you can add disks, RAM, cores, etc as you wish).