##osx-server

dgknuth: Yup. What's up?

rtrouton: trying to follow your esxi guide, but i'm running into an issue

did you have any issues getting it to recognize a device for EFI boot?

on my side, I've burned the 6.0 ISO to a disk, but it doesn't see it as viable for eFI boot

No, I didn't see problems. I burned the .iso to a CD using Disk Utility, then rebooted and held down the Option key.

rtrouton: hmmm, okay

I'll go back and take another whack at it

thank you

Sure thing.

egomez_: what do you attribute the zip files in caching server to?

I should probably know this/have come across the answer at some point, but

dgknuth: Does the device you're trying to boot this one have an optical drive?

A physical built-in one.

frogor: yes, but the machine I have the file on does not.

:P

That's not the question / reason I asked.

okay?

Basically the ability to boot a Disk Utility BIOS-type boot .ISO as imaged onto a thumb drive is a limitation / feature found only in newer Intel Macs that don't have an optical drive built into them as part of the Bootcamp capabilities, where it can spin an ISO into a thumb drive for installing Windows.

You need to make sure the .ISO you're using for ESX has EFI boot capabilities.

That will boot as-is.

(or should, at least)

Also, it needs to be an Intel Mac with 64-bit EFI.

Also - careful if you're using a really new Mac and you're mix'n'matching USB 3 devices with USB 2.

You get some oddities there.

Looks like they have a single .ISO though, so it should have native EFI boot.

For the 2013 Mac Pro, I hooked up Apple's SuperDrive and popped the CD that I'd burned the ESXi .iso on in.

The Mac Pro recognized the SuperDrive and the CD, and was able to boot from the CD.

frogor: kk, i think IO may ahve found my problem

dgknuth: Do tell

trying a tool designed to make bootable USB linux live disks on macs

and had to putz around the disk partition scheme

rtrouton: Yeah. If you use an optical drive and a CD/DVD it will almost inevitably work because -that- firmware code has been around forever.

think maybe i had the flash drive set up as GUID, this utility required me to change to MBR

dgknuth: Oh. You may have just shot yourself in the foot. That tool sounds like it was for creating bootable media for BIOS-based install media for Linux.

demmit

The ESXi ISO should have EFI boot capability.

frogor: well, looking at the contents of the ISO, it does have an EFI option

the only thing I can't figure out is the proper way to get the ISO directly onto the USB key

Should just be able to plugin the USB drive and use the 'Restore' function for the ISO to the drive.

In Disk Utility

can't, disk utility errors out

invalid argument every time

Are you trying the command-line or the GUI?

ended up having to do the dd command in terminal

frogor: both

So plug in the thumb drive, then repartition it as a single partition GPT drive.

Volume format doesn't matter, HFS+ is fine

okay

Then mount the .ISO file, you should see a volume appear in Disk Utility for it.

Then you should be able to use the Restore tab in Disk Utility and for source drag in the mounted volume from the ISO and destination drag in the volume you made on the USB drive

And it'll warn you that it'll erase the USB drive volume

(which is to be expected)

error: could not validate source - error 254

Did you do what I said and double-click / mount the .ISO file and drag over the mounted -volume- ?

yes

(source should not be the .dmg / .iso file itself)

Ok. Going to test here, 'sec

dgknuth: have you checked that your downloaded ISO checksum is identical to the one on the vmware downlaod site to rule out corruption?

no, doing so now

Allister: What, that's really the answer to your enhancement request?

evidently

So...if Chrome/Firefox were sandboxed, they couldn't ask to be the default browser?

Ah

Ok, I think it's because the source is a .iso

'um, sandbox hard. Sandbox Bad! Blame sandbox!'

No checksum

frogor: yeah

Allister: well, to be fair, poo in the sandbox is bad, mmkay

alright

afk for a bit

doc's office

this will make a USB that'll boot EFI on a mac http://blog.macrepairsouthlondon.com/hardware/n...

"will make a USB" ಠ_ಠ

ha

whatever you call those scary garbage things that vendors give you

A USB what? Toaster? Hair dryer? Humping dog?

swag

iPod

keeleysam: Nice

Allister: the bzips starting in server 4.1?

no, the actual served zips, like the iOS release text was in

btw, bzgrep means you don't NEED to unpack all those first...

Oh those zips are typically iOS updates.

and also why can't I make postAlert work at all...

Run as root.

but shouldn't it bark about a user?

Server app?

ah, you actually need that weird here-file-looking syntax

<<<""

Yes.

If someone was splitting development time between OS X and Windows, any sage advice between Boot Camp and Fusion/Parallels?

It's a pretty hacky way of tricking the alerts into writing it out.

I lean toward Fusion/Parallels because rebooting sucks

foigus: Use two computers. One Windows, one OS X.

foigus: As in, which method to deploy Windows with?

foigus: Or for testing?

foigus: need SCCM on the windows side? It's not bad in Fusion, but it's also pretty clunky because our Win support team is clunky

As in whether to load Windows as a VM or as Boot Camp

foigus: I would do it in VM

Allister: I believe Fusion can run our SCCM Task Sequence

foigus: Still not clear what you actually want to do in Windows

foigus: fusion Pro

"splitting development time" sounds like maybe serious coding

gneagle: I'll be calling the user soon.

foigus: It all depends on the performance needs.