Old Hardware: How to turn your OLD MACBOOK PRO into something usable using PROXMOX

Do you have an old MacBook Pro, Thinkpad, Dell-machine, or any other old laptop laying around and waiting for its fate? Well, you could instead do something useful with it!

In this video, I will show you how to repurpose such an old machine, with a broken display, and without any battery, as part of your homelab by installing Proxmox on it. We will do all the initial configurations, and then install a VM on it.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:38 – Installing Proxmox
02:07 – Proxmox: Base configuration
02:54 – Linux: Add an administrative user
03:34 – Proxmox: Add dedicated admin user
04:06 – Proxmox: Add ISO-image for VM
04:34 – Proxmox: Create and install Ubuntu-Server VM
07:18 – Use your VM
07:37 – Outro

Proxmox Download:

Ubuntu Server 21.10 Download:
(select Option 2 – Manual Server Installation)

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