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6 Copy the isolinux.cfg file from the ESXi installer ISO image to the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory.

The isolinux.cfg file contains the following code, where XXXXXX is the build number of the ESXi

installer image:

DEFAULT menu.c32

MENU TITLE ESXi-5.x.x-XXXXXX-full Boot Menu

NOHALT 1

PROMPT 0

TIMEOUT 80

LABEL install

KERNEL mboot.c32

APPEND -c location of boot.cfg

MENU LABEL ESXi-5.x.x-XXXXXX-full ^Installer

LABEL hddboot

LOCALBOOT 0x80

MENU LABEL ^Boot from local disk

7 Rename the isolinux.cfg file with the MAC address of the target host machine: 01-

mac_address_of_target_ESXi_host. For example, 01-23-45-67-89-0a-bc

8 Boot the machine with the network adapter.

PXE Boot the ESXi Installer Using gPXE

You can PXE boot the ESXi installer using gPXE.

See also “About Installation and Upgrade Scripts,” on page 184 and “About the boot.cfg File,” on page 193

Prerequisites

Verify that your environment has the following components:

The ESXi installer ISO image downloaded from the VMware Web site

HTTP Web server that is accessible by your target ESXi hosts

DHCP server configured for PXE booting: /etc/dhcpd.conf is configured for client hosts with a TFTP

server and the initial boot file set to gpxelinux.0/undionly.kpxe. See “Sample DHCP Configuration,”

on page 160.

Server with a hardware configuration that is supported with your version of ESXi. See the Hardware

Compatibility Guide at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.

gPXELINUX

(Optional) ESXi installation script. See “About Installation and Upgrade Scripts,” on page 184.

Use a native VLAN in most cases. If you want to specify the VLAN ID to be used with PXE booting, check

that your NIC supports VLAN ID specification.

Procedure

1 Copy the contents of the ESXi installer ISO image to the /var/www/html directory on the HTTP server.

2 Modify the boot.cfg file with the information for the HTTP server.

Use the following code as a model, where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the HTTP server IP address. The

kernelopt line is optional. Include that option to specify the location of the installation script for a

scripted installation.

title=Loading ESX installer

kernel=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/tboot.b00

kernelopt=ks=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/esxi_ksFiles/ks.cfg

modules=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/b.b00 --- http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/useropts.gz ---

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