-Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 Motherboard (NVidia Chipset)

-AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+ Processor (Dual Core 2ghz)

-1gb DDR RAM

-1 Seagate 120gb SATA Drive plugged into motherboard SATA Controller (have not tested any RAID setups)

-Using Integrated Nvidia 6100 Graphics

I of course don't expect this to be a supported config and I'd never use it in production but it does give me a cheap system for testing. Much easier than scrambling to find a SCSI/RAID card and SCSI drives. Thanks guys!

Jay

1.) a linux live CD is a linux system which boots completely from a bootable cd. The cd can do as much as the tools on the cd can do.

for example:

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

http://live.debian.net/debian-cd/4.0_r0-rc1/i386/iso-cd/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

2.) scp .. securecopy for help: man scp

And many other free books/infos http://www.linux.org/docs/online_books.html

nano howto: install esx and try a reboot. If a startup into your esx installation fails, boot your system with any live cd which supports your hardware. Copy my script from above, with corrections from pdewild, ( enable_ml115_sata_esx3.5_v0.2a.txt ) on a usb stick and mount the stick within your linux live environment or set up the network of your linux live system and use under windows winscp to transfer the script to the linux live system.

Every script must be "executable": chmod a+x scriptname.ext and run it with ./scriptname.ext

hope that helps you to move on, r.

wenn you run

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chmod a+x script.sh

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root@atbws071:~ls -al vmnetconf.sh

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.7K Jan 4 2007 vmnetconf.sh

root@atbws071:~

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root@host:~ls -al script.sh

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.7K Jan 4 2007 script.sh

root@host:~

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cp /sourcepath/script.sh /root

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root@atbws071:~ls -al vmnetconf.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.7K Jan 4 2007 vmnetconf.sh
root@atbws071:~

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there is no message when completed successfully. Try a ls -al, should look like ..

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root@host:~ls -al script.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.7K Jan 4 2007 script.sh
root@host:~

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then you can run the script with ./script.sh.

Copy this script before all that to /root.

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cp /sourcepath/script.sh /root

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kind regards,

rpartmann

I tried to run the script by using ./ scriptname.sh Then I just got tons of errors about file not found, command not found and etc. Ok, so I just copied each line and pasted + executed it individually. I then got the error in this line: echo "#!/bin/bash" >> /mnt/eroot/etc/init.d/rp-esxcfg-pciid-boot

The error said something about event not found for bin/bash. So, I skipped that line and continued to paste the rest of the script. Oh well...and then nothing worked obviously.

Unfortunately I can't for the life of me find where I saved that script, so I've had to google for an alternative. I hope this works:
find . -name \*.sh -exec perl -i -n -e 's/\015//;print' {} \;

For me, fixing this using windows, the entire process was:

• Download Ubuntu 7.10 and use the .ISO image to create the Ubuntu CD
• Save pdewild's script to a USB stick
• Install ESX
• Boot the server using the Ubuntu CD
• Insert the USB stick
• Copy the script to the root using the file browser, renamed it "esx.sh"
• Open a console and create a script to strip out CRLF characters:
  cd /
  echo "find . -name \*.sh -exec perl -i -n -e 's/\015//;print' {} \;" > fixscript.sh
• Make both scripts executable:
  chmod +x esx.sh
  chmod +x fixscript.sh
• Run the fix script:
  ./fixscript.sh
• Run the esx script:
  ./esx.sh