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Installation of ESXi 4.1 via bootable USB stick
Hi everyone, i'm trying to install ESXi 4.1 from a USB stick and has run into a little snag. What i do is the following: Format USB stick in Windows 7 x64 with FAT32 (or FAT16, same problem) "burn...
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What does your partition table for the USB stick look like? It's a little wonky, but you actually need a partition table with one partition on it for this to work.
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I'm not sure what you mean. I've downloaded a virtual appliance with linux so that i can format the stick in linux. I've tried to create ONE partition with both FAT16 and FAT32 on both the linux...
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Can you post the 'fdisk -l' output for the disk? Also, did you run syslinux on it to install syslinux to the MBR, or did you only copy the syslinux config files?
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It's booting fine, it's later in the installation that it stops. I use Unetbootin to make it bootable after format. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Fdisk -l Device Boot Start End...
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http://vm-help.com/esx40i/ESXi_USB_install.php
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Followed the guide. Still same error. Remember that i'm trying to install 4.1 not 4.0 that the guide was for. In addition to this the installation (to the point where it stops) was about ten times...
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Vmware support provided me with a workaround: When the error messag appear i do: ALT + F1Log in (root + no password)echo "mtools_skip_check=1" >> .mtoolsrcALT + F2 to return to original...
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I guess I didn't do a good job of explaining where to put the mod.tgz in the post mentioned above ( http://benincosa.org/blog/?p=202 ). I guess I didn't think many people would run into this problem...
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Thanks, see if I can add this to my script http://code.google.com/p/mkesxiaio/
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