I screwed up and put ESXi on a 1 GB USB thumb drive. That was the only one I had that would fit vertically in an HP ProLiant DL380 server (all my other ones were too tall). Yes, I am an idiot 
I figured the ESXi installer would complain if it was too small - it didn't, so I figured I was safe and carried on with the install.
Now I trying to update to ESXi 4 U1 and the if fails telling me there is not enough space. Anyone have any suggestions? I thought of these possible options:
1) Install 1 of the 4 updates at a time, hoping it deletes temp files each time and there would be enough space to do at least one, and then move on to the next one.
2) Build a new ESXi 4 server will the same configuration (on a larger USB) and swap them? Would this work? Would it recognize my existing SAS drives I use for the VMDK files and let me import the VMs? I am using all local drives with no SAN connection.
3) Copy the USB to a new one...not sure of the techincal skills required to do this...I am not much of a Linux admin
SB
I figured the ESXi installer would complain if it was too small - it didn't, so I figured I was safe and carried on with the install.
Now I trying to update to ESXi 4 U1 and the if fails telling me there is not enough space. Anyone have any suggestions? I thought of these possible options:
1) Install 1 of the 4 updates at a time, hoping it deletes temp files each time and there would be enough space to do at least one, and then move on to the next one.
2) Build a new ESXi 4 server will the same configuration (on a larger USB) and swap them? Would this work? Would it recognize my existing SAS drives I use for the VMDK files and let me import the VMs? I am using all local drives with no SAN connection.
3) Copy the USB to a new one...not sure of the techincal skills required to do this...I am not much of a Linux admin
SB
