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OsburnM
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Altiris PXE Boot to Install ESXi to SD Card (Not Scripted)

Greetings.  I'm trying to get our Altiris environment to pxe boot my server and allow me to install the esxi 4.1 installer from PXE.  I don't care about using kickstart to script the install (I know it's not possible to script install from pxe to a USB or SD device).

But, what I would like to do is simply use altiris instead of popping in a CD each time.

I've got Altiris as far as adding a new PXE Boot Menu Option that fires off the linux boot files from the CD; but, then it says the source is missing.  If I specify the KS flag to add an http install dir, then I get the issue with it being an SD card.

Is there any way to make this work?  Again, I don't care about it not being scripted (though it would be nice).  I just don't want to have to pop in CDs.

Thanks!

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AureusStone
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From the ISO you should be able to extract the dd file, such as "VMware-VMvisor-big-398348-x86_64.dd".  Then copy it to your mnt directory.

Then from the linux console run something like

dd if=/mnt/ds/Deployment/VMware-VMvisor-big-398348-x86_64.dd of=/dev/sda bs=500M

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