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Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Aug 1, 2008 9:56 AM

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dilpreet 38 posts since
Jun 28, 2008 VMware

dd'ing the image directly to the drive will work, but you will lose
anything else you may have on that device.

Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Aug 1, 2008 2:45 PM

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hkawamorita 9 posts since
Nov 9, 2007

OK, so at the end I guess my CD was bad, as it was not completing the ESXi boot.
I was actually using a CDRW that I got from my IT, so when I tried with a regular CDR, it worked all fine.

So, unless other say otherwise, ESXi 3.5 Update 2 works with Dell PowerEdge SC1425.

It did recognize my disks and I was able to configure my datastores.

Folks, thanks a lot for everything.

Thanks and have a good weekend.

Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Aug 1, 2008 2:51 PM

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dilpreet 38 posts since
Jun 28, 2008 VMware

Go ahead and add this system to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESX_Server(Whitebox_HCL)
so that others will know it works. I think we also have a list on
the communities website as well. I'm glad it worked out for you.

Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Aug 1, 2008 2:54 PM

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Dave.Mishchenko 6,710 posts since
Nov 15, 2005 Moderator

What sort of storage controller does the VI client show your server as having?

Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Aug 12, 2008 2:37 PM

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dilpreet 38 posts since
Jun 28, 2008 VMware

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Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Aug 29, 2008 10:04 AM

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tomicles 1 posts since
Aug 29, 2008

On my SC1425 the VI client shows the following for storage controllers

82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller

--> vmhba1 SCSI
--> vmhba32 SCSI

82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller

--> vmhba0 Block SCSI

Hope this helps.

Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Aug 29, 2008 10:10 AM

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Dave.Mishchenko 6,710 posts since
Nov 15, 2005 Moderator

Thanks.

Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Dec 11, 2008 5:56 PM

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piotrmikula 3 posts since
Feb 20, 2007

Hello

I just got SC1425 to put ESXi on, but I'm getting Panic Error right after the install starts and says that can't read the .tgz file.

Could this be due to the fact the mobo has only CERC Sata controller?

I was hoping I can use this server but it looks like having more problems again

Any advice will be very apreciated

-Peter

Reply Re: ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on Dell PowerEdge SC1425? Install Boot CD options/parameters? Dec 13, 2008 5:03 PM

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crstek07 117 posts since
Mar 19, 2007

I was looking at buying this same server ..... Did you get this resolved?

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