Installing Freenas 8.0.4 on VMWare ESXi 4.1

[Rui Correia]

<div class="bbWrapper">Greetings,<br /> I've got a couple of ESXi 4.1 servers.<br /> I've downloaded both the 32bit and 64bit Freenas ISO's to try install them on my ESXi servers.<br /> I have done everything exactly as in this website's instructions: <a href="http://pricklytech.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/installing-freenas-8-on-vmware-vsphere-esxi/" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://pricklytech.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/installing-freenas-8-on-vmware-vsphere-esxi/</a><br /> <br /> Problem is, when the ISO starts loading, I can see:<br /> CD Loader 1.2<br /> Building the boot loader arguments<br /> looking up /BOOT/LOADER... File not found<br /> looking up /boot/loader... Found<br /> <br /> Then I get a movement glypho like these characters |/-\|/\-/| being replaced very fast.<br /> But nothing else happens.<br /> Can someone give me a hand with this?<br /> TIA<br /> Cheers</div>

 

[Rui Correia]

<div class="bbWrapper">Weird...<br /> Just downloaded FreeNAS-8.0-RELEASE-i386.iso (instead of 8.0.4) and it booted properly.<br /> Can someone replicate this?<br /> Is this a known bug?<br /> TIA<br /> Cheers</div>

 

[James]

<div class="bbWrapper">Are you using the suggested 1GB disk size? This was increased to 2GB in 8.0.1-BETA3 to make room for localizations. We usually recommend at least 4GB in case there are future OS size increases.</div>

 

[Rui Correia]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hi admin.<br /> Thanks for your reply.<br /> I have 2 hard disks in my VMWare virtual machine for FreeNAS.<br /> One is 4GB (for FN installation) and the other one is 300GB (for file storage).<br /> Could you please try this setup in an ESXi 4.1?<br /> Thanks in advance.<br /> Cheers</div>

 

[Rui Correia]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hi guys.<br /> Just realized that the iso files hashes didn't match.<br /> We redownloaded (for the 3rd or 4th time :o) and now it works flawlessly.<br /> You can close this one.<br /> Thanks for all the help you spared me.<br /> Cheers</div>