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Installing, Configuring and Upgrading ESX Server

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• As root, mount the CD.

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

• Put a floppy disk in the floppy drive.

• Copy the boot image from the CD to the floppy.

dd if=/mnt/cdrom/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1474560 \

count=1

Note: The command should all be typed on one line. Do not type the

backslash.

Then insert the floppy disk in the floppy drive, reboot and, if necessary, make the

floppy drive the first boot device. You should leave the CD in the CD-ROM drive.

5. The first screen of the installer outlines the installation and configuration process.

It offers a choice between installing and upgrading.

For a full install, choose Install.

If you are upgrading an existing ESX Server computer, see Upgrading from a

Previous Version of ESX Server on page 87.

6. You are asked if you have a driver disk provided by VMware for a device that is

not handled by drivers in this release of ESX Server.

If you do not have a driver disk, choose No and continue with the installation.

If you have a driver disk from VMware, put the driver disk into the floppy drive

and choose Yes.

7. After the driver disk screen, the installer examines all the hardware to determine

if the Ethernet and SCSI devices are compatible with VMware ESX server.

If you see the message Unknown PCI devices, there are Ethernet or SCSI PCI

devices installed on the machine that are not supported by the console

operating system, possibly because they are quite new. Contact VMware with

details about the device to determine the current level of support for the device.

If you see the message PCI devices unusable by virtual machines, there are

Ethernet or SCSI PCI devices installed on the machine that are supported by the

console operating system but cannot be used by virtual machines. These

devices may be older, lower-performance devices that are not supported by

VMware ESX Server.

The next series of steps installs the console operating system.

8. In Disk Setup, choose Disk Druid.

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