installing ESXi 3.5 in Dell....

[miatech]

Guys, I have a Dell with one PATA hard drive of 40 G and a SATA hard drive of 1 T. I tried to install EXSi 3.5 and it will not detect my 40 G drive. I don't want to install EXSi on the other hard drive, as that one is for storage and applications. I've been told that EXSi supports installation on USB flash drives, so I plugged in my 4 G flash drive to install it there, but it will not detect it either.... the only drive is detecting is the 1T drive. Is there any workaround to this? What can I do without having to buy a new 80 G SATA drive just to install less that 500 M of OS?

THANKS

[MHAV]

Check out this website for getting your USB Stick fixed up with ESXi. ESXi USB STICK

The only way not to buy a new drive is getting the USB Stick ready.

Regards

Michael Haverbeck

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[miatech]

I tried that method, but it didn't work. The winimage program didn't transfer the dd image to the usb drive... gives an error

[azn2kew]

Double check if ESXi support your PATA drive controller, if not you have to make changes to a file you can read more details here

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Stefan Nguyen

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iGeek Systems Inc.

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