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crstek07
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How do I get ESXi from the CD to the USB drive...

I've checked the bios on the server and it supports USB boot and it sees it, but when I go through the install ESXi says there is no supported disk volume...

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Lance

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leofonic
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See Daves instructions:

(I ran into an error when i tried to copy the image with winimage in Vista, with XP it worked)

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nick_couchman
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Immortal

You can also do it in Linux with the "dd" command after you get the .dd image extracted.

dd if=<dd file> of=/dev/<usb drive>

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depping
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Leadership

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/07/29/esxi-35-update-2-on-a-usb-memory-key/

Duncan

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crstek07
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Contributor

cool..thanks for the great info...

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admin
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Immortal

And another doc that talks about extraction, USB, and PXE:

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-6824

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