Preparation of the hard drive for ESX 3.5 install

I have downlaoded a trial version of ESX 3.5, burn a cd with the ISO file and tried to install it on my workstation intel.   The installation says that it cannot find a partition.

I understand that ESX 3.5 runs under Red Hat linux. I need to install Red Hat Linux first? VMWare is recommended? I have fedora 9

Essentially could someone indicate the steps needed to prepare the hard disk for installation?

My workstation is configured as follows:

1.8 G P4 with 1.5 GB Ram and 200 GB IDE hard drive.   I can install it on this system or do I dual CPU, & gt; 2 gig of Ram and a drive hard ide not?

Can I migrate between ESXi and ESX 3.5 hosts?

Thank you

Dan

Hello

The installer ESX install basically 2 things. First, it installs the vmkernel and its Elements, and the second thing it installs is the RHEL3 based on GNU/Linux or the service console management appliance. The considered distinct elements and it will make more sense. ESX is NOT Linux. The kernel running on the hardware is the vmkernel. The vmkernel creates a virtual machine for GNU/Linux management machinery to run during the start-up phase of ESX. The vmkernel is an exclusive hypervisor. Also to be called Linux, the kernel must be blessed by Linus Torvaldis... If you really want the details about how ESX boots please refer to VMware ESX Server in the enterprise structure because it contains this information.

If you can not start ESX and then very probably not have a RAID/SCSI/SATA/SAS controller supported in use. This controller must be on the HCLs already reported in the previous posts.

Note that IDE is not supported in some way. Very few SATA controllers are supported. So if your "Workstation" uses the IDE or a RAID/SCSI/SATA/SAS controller not supported then your options for virtualization are limited to the use of VMware Server, WOrkstation or ESX from VMware Workstation.

Best regards

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