14 Responses to “ ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on a USB memory key ”

1. Bert Bouwhuis
   July 29th, 2008 at 21:28
   

   That’s an interesting option, but the PDF link is either wrong or not available at the moment…

2. Gabriel Maciel
   July 29th, 2008 at 21:34
   

   The following link “http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2008/01/21/installing-esx-3i-on-usb-stick” has the setup details as well.

3. Duncan Epping
   July 29th, 2008 at 22:11
   

   the website is down Bert, the link should be correct cause I double checked it this afternoon.

4. Anders Gregersen
   August 10th, 2008 at 19:13
   

   Did ESXi see your local storage and nic on the X61? If so what partno. does the X61 you use have? I’m looking for a laptop that works with ESXi 3.5u2 without any nfs or other storage attached

5. Martti Kuparinen
   August 25th, 2008 at 12:16
   

   Here’s how I did it using Ubuntu (as I don’t have Windows on my home PC):

   http://www.iki.fi/kuparine/comp/vmware/esxionusb.html

6. Brian
   August 25th, 2008 at 21:30
   

   For those looking for a WinImage alternative I successfully used “DD for Windows” found here: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

   I used:

   dd bs=1M if=VMware-VMvisor-big-3.5.0-67921.i386.dd of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 –progress

   I found the path to my removable drive by using the “dd –list” command and then looking in the “NT Block Device Objects” list for the first removable media where the size was the same as my USB flash drive.

   Not as sleek as WinImage, but since this is GPL and the only time I expect to ever write a DD image file to a drive, it is much easier than registering yet another piece of software.

7. Remon Lam
   August 26th, 2008 at 13:27
   

   I have moved the guide to my new site http://www.vminfo.nl/?p=29
   sorry for the inconvenience.

   I have updated the guide for ESX version 3.5 u2.

   Best regards,
   Remon Lam - VMinfo.nl

8. Remon Lam
   August 27th, 2008 at 00:39
   

   I’ve seen that you’re using an “old” link to the guide.
   I have moved it to my new site that is dedicated to virtualization.

   On the site below you can find the new version of the guide, I have tested it with the latest version of ESX 3i Update 2 and it’s still working fine.

   Here’s the direct link to the guide: http://www.vminfo.nl/?p=29

   Sorry for the inconvenience.

   Best regards,
   Remon Lam - VMinfo.nl

9. PSL
   August 30th, 2008 at 14:52
   

   I cannot boot the USB flashdisk (2GB), I get error “Panic: Cannot get disk parameters.”
   Motherboard is miniATX Gigabyte with G33 chipset (GA-G33M-DSR2. Looks as SYSLINUX problem.

10. Marcello
    September 7th, 2008 at 03:22
    

    I got the same error “Panic: Cannot get disk parameters” using GA-EP35-DS3P

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    October 3rd, 2008 at 12:26
    

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13. Chris Staudt
    October 15th, 2008 at 17:34
    

    All I get is:
    Panic: Cannot get disk parameters.
    Did anybody solve this?

    Best regards,
    chris

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