Installing ESX Server from a USB Drive

Here is an example of the great kind of information you can find in the VMware Community Forums. Paul provides complete instructions on how to install ESX Server from a USB flash drive. I’ll give you the requirements for this here, but you’ll have to read the full post yourself here.
Requirements:

- You will need at least a 1 GB USB flash disk.
- You must have both the ESX 3.x CD-ROM and ISO image handy.

- You will need an ISO image extraction tool such as WinISO, MagicISO, or even WinRAR.

- You’ll need SYSLINUX, a Linux boot loader for removable media. Get it here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.36.zip

- These instructions are based on a Windows PC for simplicity. If you’re a Linux guru, then you can obviously do this under Linux. You’d need to know how to mount .ISO images in order to extract files, etc.

VMware, VMware ESX VMwarewolf March 12th. 2007, 12:21pm

6 Responses to “Installing ESX Server from a USB Drive”

  1. How To: Install VMware ESX 3.0.x from a USB flash drive « ICT-Freak Says:
    March 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    [...] bron: http://www.vmwarewolf.com/installing-esx-server-from-a-usb-drive/ [...]

  2. blackblade Says:
    May 12th, 2007 at 10:24 pm

    DO you mean you install esx server 3.0 on a pc hardware? not a server hardware? Can you tell me which configuration your pc is?
    Thanks!

  3. vmwarewolf Says:
    May 12th, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    Blackblade, you be better off to post your question on the forum rather than here as that is where the original author posted this. Follow the link in the story.

  4. XKO Web Hosting & Domain Names Says:
    December 19th, 2008 at 7:03 am

    Thanks for the tip, had a test workstation with sata, this come in very handy.

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  5. J Fleck Says:
    November 24th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Has anyone written instructions for doing this with ESX 4.0? The file structure seems a little different than it was in 3.5.

  6. tiny image host Says:
    January 9th, 2010 at 9:02 pm

    any updates coming??