- #SHARPEST 22 SCREEN FOR 2011 MAC MINI SERVER HOW TO#
- #SHARPEST 22 SCREEN FOR 2011 MAC MINI SERVER INSTALL#
- #SHARPEST 22 SCREEN FOR 2011 MAC MINI SERVER DRIVERS#
- #SHARPEST 22 SCREEN FOR 2011 MAC MINI SERVER DRIVER#
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#SHARPEST 22 SCREEN FOR 2011 MAC MINI SERVER INSTALL#
“An error has occurred while parsing the installation scriptĮrror:file://etc/vmware/weasel/ks.cfg:line 12: install –firstdisk specified, but no suitable disk was found.” On the mini 4,1 it drops at the point where it’d touch the disk with: With that, the keyboard/mouse missing doesn’t matter during the install. It sets the network to dhcp on the first nic. So, it accepts the eula, sets the password to ‘mypassword’, wipes and installs on the first disk it finds (forcing it to overwrite if it finds a vmfs partition). StampFile = open(‘/finished.stamp’, mode=’w’) %post –interpreter=python –ignorefailure=true The install cd actually has a default kickstart that does the following: I was able to get further into the install process by using a kickstart. I have also been working on this project for a while. I would be really great to get the mini running, wouldn’t it? Reply
#SHARPEST 22 SCREEN FOR 2011 MAC MINI SERVER HOW TO#
There’s an explanation there on how to do the rest.
#SHARPEST 22 SCREEN FOR 2011 MAC MINI SERVER ARCHIVE#
So the only thing needed right now is the correct oem.tgz file for the nforce NIC in the Mini.Īfter the installation, we simply have to boot from an external disk and modify the oem.tgz archive in the Hypervisor1 partition, because the patch only modifies the installer. I tried using the oem.tgz file found at īut that crashed my Mac Mini when booting the installer. You now have a bootable iso image with the patched driver. (of course replace “peter” with your own home folder name ) CD.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.catalog -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -J -R /Users/peter/Desktop/CD – in a terminal shell, change to the “CD” directory and : (append vmkboot.gz - vmkernel.gz - sys.vgz - cim.vgz - ienviron.tgz - image.tgz - oem.tgz - install.tgz ) – modify isolinux.cfg to have oem.tgz included
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– copy an oem.tgz file containing the driver to the CD folder root – mount the 4.0 installer CD image and copy all files to directory “CD” on your desktop – go to and follow instructions there to get mkisofs for intel mac, and install it.
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I don’t know much about those drivers and how to compile the right version for the mini, but here’s how to put them on the CD: It was hard finding the right way to do that, using standard stuff like Disk Utility simply doesn’t work. The mini does not boot from the USB stick solution, so we need to modify the CD iso. My mac mini runs a common linux distribution with xen enabled kernel – but that is far away from vmware´s work i run the very very cheap but uncertified Dell T105 tower server (sometimes available 150€) & boot from a 1gb usb stick and the guests reside on centralized NFS storage connected via multiple gigabit ethernet links – cheap, great performance and imho best for setting up a vmware lab or non mission critical servers Reply already the wacky LAN card was not supported in nearly any common linux distribution until a few months ago. I havent compared the minis hardware with the compatibilty list (which is very annoying, since you have to find out seperatly which hardware runs on the servers listed)īut i seriously doubt that it is compatible. but you probably won´t get any support from vmware in case of troubles. I haven´t tried it myself yet, but have a bit expirience in running esx on uncertified hardware – if you make sure to use common hardware which is typicly also used in the (low end) servers listed on vmwares compatibilty list, it works pretty charming. I was trying to find out of boreness if someone did it yet and found your blog.
That’s two Mac Minis running VMware ESXi 5, a cheap $250 Netgear NAS handling the storage duties for shared storage, and a few other pieces of unrelated tech gear. Presto – my Ikea datacenter comes to life! My Ikea Datacenter WiFi doesn’t, but that’s okay – I wouldn’t even run a lab off that. The USB keyboard works, video out (via HDMI!) works, and the onboard Ethernet wired network card works. These ISOs work for my Apple Mac Mini 2011 (5.1):ĭownload the ISO, burn it to CD, and boot from it. It has to be vSphere ESX or ESXi, not VMware Fusion or Parallels, because my clients all use ESXi and I wanted to be able to do things like VMotion and Storage VMotion.
I’d always wanted a small VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi) lab farm up and running, and I wanted to use Apple Mac Minis just for compactness and the silence.
Great news – Pedro Costa has got a working solution! Apple Mac Mini 2010, 2011, and 2012 models all boot a patched version of VMware ESX 5.0: VMware ESXi 5 Running on an Apple Mac Mini
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