This is pretty straight forward, but why not put in in a post anyway.<\/p>\n
You go to the vmware site and download the latest vmware esxi build. Download it somewhere in your home drive. After downloading perform following tasks:<\/p>\n
Become root (su – or sudo -s)<\/p>\n
mount the iso file. I made a dir \/media\/isoimage<\/strong> to mount it to:<\/p>\n I made a dir in my root folder to work in, copy the image.tgz file to there.<\/p>\n Extract the image file Extract the actual file you need<\/p>\n Now connect your usbdisk to your linux computer, make sure you know how it gets connected. I always tail my log files to make sure.<\/p>\n When you connect your usbdisk you will see a lot of entries passing by. You will see something like<\/p>\n So now you know it is on sdc. Make sure there aren’t any partitions on there or delete everything using fdisk (this might not be necessary, but I did it anyway)<\/p>\n Disk \/dev\/sdc: 4002 MB, 4002938880 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Delete all and write to disk<\/p>\n Command (m for help): w Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Ok now everything should be empty, so go ahead and write your dd image to the usbdisk using the following command.<\/p>\n Ok it’s pretty easy, but it might help somebody. And for you windows guys us a bootable linux cd and perform these task instead of installing all kinds of rubbish on your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is pretty straight forward, but why not put in in a post anyway. You go to the vmware site and download the latest vmware esxi build. Download it somewhere in your home drive. After downloading perform following tasks: Become root (su – or sudo -s) mount the iso file. I made a dir \/media\/isoimage … <\/p>\n
\nmkdir \/media\/isomage\/
\nmount -o loop -t iso9660 .\/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-171294.x86_64.iso \/media\/isoimage\/
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ncd \/media\/isoimage\/
\nmkdir \/root\/vmware-esxi-stuff
\ncp image.tgz \/root\/vmware-esxi-stuff\/
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\ntar xzpfv image.tgz
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nbunzip2 VMware-VMvisor-big-171294-x86_64.dd.bz2
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ntail -f \/var\/log\/messages
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nAug 23 12:43:06 bjornmonnens-desktop kernel: [1134680.672567] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] 7818240 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.00 GB\/3.72 GiB)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nfdisk \/dev\/sdc
\nCommand (m for help): p<\/p>\n
\n64 heads, 32 sectors\/track, 3817 cylinders
\nUnits = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
\nDisk identifier: 0x49e2fd2f<\/p>\n
\n\/dev\/sdc1 5 900 917504 5 Extended
\n\/dev\/sdc4 * 1 4 4080 4 FAT16 <32M
\n\/dev\/sdc5 5 254 255984 6 FAT16
\n\/dev\/sdc6 255 504 255984 6 FAT16
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nCommand (m for help): d
\nPartition number (1-8): 1<\/p>\n
\nThe partition table has been altered!<\/p>\n
\nSyncing disks.
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndd if=VMware-VMvisor-big-171294-x86_64.dd of=\/dev\/sdc
\n<\/code><\/p>\n