Solution Guide

Active System Manager Solution Guide—Active System 800 (AS800)

Figure 107. Downloading the ISO Image

7. On your Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, simply extract the contents of the

installation ISO into a new directory using the following commands (as the root user):

# mkdir /tmp/dellISO

# mkdir /tftpboot/esxi5.1_dell

# mount -o loop VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64-

Dell_Customized_RecoveryCD_A00.iso tmp/dellISO

# cp -fr /tmp/dellISO/* /var/lib/tftpboot/esxi5.1_dell/

# chmod +w /tftpboot/esxi5.1_dell/*

D.2 Modifying the ESXi boot.cfg Configuration File

To confirm that the installation source is not in the root of the TFTP server, perform the following

steps:

1. Remove all slashes (/) from the boot.cfg file so that relative paths are used (vi :%s#/##g).

2. Add a “prefix” directive to the boot.cfg file to specify the proper subdirectory, from the

perspective of the TFTP root:

# cat boot.cfg

bootstate=0

title=Loading ESXi installer

kernel=tboot.b00

kernelopt=ks=http://xx.xx.xx.xx/esxi5.1_dell/ks.cfg

modules=b.b00 --- useropts.gz --- k.b00 --- chardevs.b00 --- a.b00 --- user.b00

--- s.v00 --- misc_cni.v00 --- net_bnx2.v00 --- net_bnx2.v01 --- net_cnic.v00 -

-- net_tg3.v00 --- scsi_bnx.v00 --- scsi_bnx.v01 --- net_bna.v00 ---

scsi_bfa.v00 --- ima_be2i.v00 --- scsi_be2.v00 --- net_igb.v00 --- scsi_mpt.v00

--- ima_qla4.v00 --- net_qlcn.v00 --- scsi_qla.v00 --- ata_pata.v00 ---

ata_pata.v01 --- ata_pata.v02 --- ata_pata.v03 --- ata_pata.v04 ---

ata_pata.v05 --- ata_pata.v06 --- ata_pata.v07 --- block_cc.v00 ---

ehci_ehc.v00 --- weaselin.t00 --- esx_dvfi.v00 --- xlibs.v00 --- ipmi_ipm.v00 -

-- ipmi_ipm.v01 --- ipmi_ipm.v02 --- misc_dri.v00 --- net_be2n.v00 ---

net_e100.v00 --- net_e100.v01 --- net_enic.v00 --- net_forc.v00 ---

net_ixgb.v00 --- net_nx_n.v00 --- net_qlge.v00 --- net_r816.v00 ---

net_r816.v01 --- net_s2io.v00 --- net_sky2.v00 --- net_vmxn.v00 ---

ohci_usb.v00 --- sata_ahc.v00 --- sata_ata.v00 --- sata_sat.v00 ---

sata_sat.v01 --- sata_sat.v02 --- sata_sat.v03 --- sata_sat.v04 ---