so finally with pci passthrough enabled i was ready to boot the vm. i had already downloaded official arch installer iso, set that as the iso and booted the vm. arch is an intimidating install, i worked through it a few times. best way is do a snapshot backup right …
joe delivery, reassembly and more shit to order
well, things were trickling in. moved the nicely packaged server into my office for some unboxing and staring at it, scrutinizing it and cracking it open. everything was intact. i sorted out the cables, tried to figure out how i was gunna test things and went to the desktop system …
the og server purchase
i had no idea what i was looking for. hit the reddit subs, googled, questioned ai sources. many things pointed me to the dell 730 server. i went to ebay, couldn’t find any that i thought fit my needs due to them being mostly prebuilt. ended up settling on a …