Installation operation failed

[betojb]

Hi all, greetings from BRzl.

I just downloaded & burnt a CD with the latest ESXi and tryed to install it on HP Compaq dc7600 SFF (it's not at d HLC, but it's just a test). After loading for some moments, the following appeared:

"Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard

Model: HP Compaq dc7600 Small Form Factor

Service Tag: BRB60302Q2

Bios Rev.: 786D1 v01.03"

Is there a way to install it? Should I give up?

Any help will be appreciated!

[Dave_Mishchenko]

The DC 7600 has been testing with ESX 3.5 regular and was Ok so you should be Ok with ESXi (http://www.vm-help.com/Whitebox_HCL.php). If you open the CD on another PC, do you see a bunch of tgz files and other files?

[betojb]

Yeah, I'll put all the file names that I see in the CD:

BINMOD.TGZ

BOOT.CAT

CIM.TGZ

IENVIRON.TGZ

INSTALL.TGZ

ISOLINUX.BIN

ISOLINUX.CFG

LICENSE.TGZ

MBOOT.C32

MENU.C32

OEM.TGZ

VMKERNEL.GZ

These are the files, total size of them: 237 MB

I'm using optical drive HP DVDRW (Sata) and the HD is Western DigitalWD800BD - 80 GB (Sata).

[betojb]

Dave, I am attaching the pic of the error I told.

This error happened when the installation was about 44%.

The HD used to install is brand new.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

I'd run a disk check app on the drive or perhaps swap out the drive and try another one.

[Jasemccarty]

It looks like either the disk is bad or an unsupported type.

Some HP/Compaq boxes support both IDE/SATA drives. Are you sure you have a SATA drive in it?

If you do, it looks like it is bad.

Jase McCarty

http://www.jasemccarty.com

Co-Author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center

(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach

[betojb]

I tried two times using IDE and Sata disks. The same error was shown.

I heard about installing it on a flash drive, and using HD to hold the VMs. Is this possible?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

It's not supported but works fine - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/Boot%203i%20from%20USB%20flash%20drive.html.

[betojb]

yeah, the flash drive works!

Now, I must install the client into another machine to manage this server, right? Then, I tried putting the IP Address in the browser, and downloading the Client.

When running, an error appeared. "Could not read the file!".

I tried it in many other machines, but no way.

Is there another place to download it?

[betojb]

Thank you for you replies and patience. I didn't work for me this case, but now, I have ESXi running smooth in IBM BladeCenter HS22 blades.