![]() ![]() I’m trying to do the same kind of thing using a USB key that I set up using the HP USB Key tool. Hopefully this was a useful trick for you to use. i ended up specifying an NFS server and path which made considerably quicker work of getting data to the disk. ![]() The upside of this approach is if you attempt to boot on an older server with only USB 1.1 which is all i had, you can use an alternate method for installing. ![]() select cdrom/USB and install will proceed like from a DVD. when it asks if you want to install from cdrom/usb, nfs, localdisk, etc. To install from USB make sure you can boot from “removable devices”, then go through the install questions. If you don’t want to do this you can select you install option for ESX and then add askmedia to the kernel parameters. Once completed I added askmedia to the boot options in the syslinux.cfg file because the default wants to boot from cdrom only. The creation took about 5-6 minutes on a USB 2.0 port on my laptop. This created a perfectly bootable usb stick on a 4GB device. I specified the ESX 4.0 image as the iso diskimage. i downloaded the windows version, plugged in my 4GB USB stick and ran it (it’s just an executable) on my laptop. I came across unetbootin ( ) which is available as a windows or linux installable. nothing was particularly straight forward, with fat16, vs fat32, master boot records, dos bootable, etc…. after looking at many different methods for creating usb bootable drives, tricks, etc. I recently needed to install esx 4.0 onto an older server which did not have a dvd drive. ![]()
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