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Offline rmills

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Installing on ESXi 6.5
« on: December 26, 2018, 03:26:30 PM »
Trying to test out TinyCore or TinyCorePlus on an ESXi 6.5 machine. However when I try to install I can't see any hardrives. I can only install SCSI controllers, I don't have an option to install IDE or SATA drives. Are there any workarounds to use the default LSI or Buslogic controllers with ESXi 6.5?

Offline andyj

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Re: Installing on ESXi 6.5
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2018, 03:58:07 PM »
Delete the existing hard drive, and create a new hard drive. Then you will have the option to change it to SATA.

Offline rmills

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Re: Installing on ESXi 6.5
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2018, 05:11:48 PM »
Thanks, that was it!

Offline kingbily

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Re: Installing on ESXi 6.5
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2019, 04:40:02 AM »
Mount the ESXi 6.5 ISO image to the host.
Connect to the DCUI console of the host.
Power-On the host hardware and allow the host to boot from the ISO image.
The boot process will begin with the Boot Menu and progress to the Loading ESXi screen.