use unetbootin to put iso on usb stick. USB stick must be VFAT formatted Once done, if space is an issue, remove all files except /boot Copy the iso image to the root of the usb stick and unmount Boot from USB in DEBUG mode When the boot process is completed, you will see a message similar to “no cdrom found – unable to continue (type exit or Ctrl-D to reboot)“ Identify your usb device and mount it fdisk -l mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt (if your usb stick was identified as /dev/sdb of course) mkdir /mnt2 mount -o loop -t iso9660 /mnt/proxmox_[version].iso /mnt2 chroot /mnt2 sbin/unconfigured.sh