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Just installed two reconditioned WD Blue 1TB WD10SPZX drives in my HP DL380 G7 server, and can confirm that these drives work ok without the thermal runaway issue.
Temps after first boot up:
Drives reporting ok status (2 new drives in second bay) :
After about an hour of uptime, still looking good:
Latest Host Client update for my ESXi server popped up today. Interesting the web based client app is still Angular 1.x :
By default, my Ubuntu 14.04 desktop guest running under VMware ESXi has a maximum resolution of 1360×768 when accessed with the Remote Client, which although usable is not great on my MacBook Pro:
In the guest settings for my Ubuntu guest, I have rather limited graphics settings:
I tried bumping up the memory and see if that opens up some additional settings but that didn’t change anything, although for higher resolutions it’s most likely I would need more gpu memory, but that’s not the issue with the limited settings here.
Searching for ‘ESXi linux guest maximum resolution’ I found this article:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/527747
which suggests to install a ‘desktop’ version of the open-vm-tools:
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
Let’s try that. After a reboot, now we’ve got higher resolutions! Awesome!
Installers with floppy disk boot images require swapping the disk images which is tedious. Find ISO images with 1 boot CDROM ISO and 1 install CDROM ISO – this is a much easier approach for installing. The Boot ISO and English ISO from this collection on archive.org work well.
Create a VM with:
In ESXi this looks like:
Attach the iso boot image and boot the VM:
Remove the boot ISO cdrom and switch to the English language cdrom the press Enter:
F5 to switch to Physical View:
Tab to the [free space] in the second section, press Enter for Options, and create new Primary partition:
Press F5 to change back to Logical View, press Enter for Options:
Haven’t created or selected a logical volume, this forces you back to the Logical Volume Manager:
Choose the physical partition we created:
Now this looks like:
Set the volume to be installable:
Switch the ISO image back to the boot ISO and restart the VM.
On restarting the VM, with ESXi for some reason it changes the boot order at this point to the HD first, CDROM image second, so you’ll get a blank black screen on startup.
Power off the VM.
Go into your VM options and check the option to force boot to BIOS on next start:
Power on again.
When the BIOS menu comes up, go to Boot and change the CDROM entry to it is first in the list with the + key, then Save and Exit:
When booted, swap CDROM ISO image to the second install ISO when prompted.
You’ll now see the Welcome install screen again. Enter through the next few screens until you get to the partition selection screen, Accept the partition we created earlier and do a ‘Quick format’ when prompted:
Select HPFS:
The install from the ISO image goes pretty quick, then you’ll see this screen:
Followed by a reboot. You’ll now see the first of the config option dialogs:
You can leave the graphics as default, or press the button and switch the the GRADD drivers (which from memory are the better drivers to use):
Next/Ok through the the next few screens, then you’ll get to the optional installs:
I left the selected options, press Next:
Complete the registration screen, and then you get more options, I unchecked File and Print Sharing, and left the other pre-selected options:
Press Next, if there’s anything that needs additional config it will be flagged here, otherwise press Install:
The install goes pretty quick from here and will reboot at least once:
“IBM Means 3 Things”:
After another reboot if you get a blank screen with network card info, press Enter to continue then you’ll get to your desktop with more options – I selected Java 1.3 to take a look, and the IBM Web Browser:
At this point the installer doesn’t see my CDROM image even though it’s attached, but pressing Exit take me to the desktop.
Welcome to OS/2 Warp 4:
The network adapter wasn’t configured with DHCP by default, so from the TCP/IP folder on the desktop, find TCP/IP Configuration (Local) and enable the first interface and DHCP:
You’ll be prompted to reboot again, but now you should have an IP, and if you open Netscape, you’ll be able to browse the web, although with some rendering issues for sites using features not supported in this older version of Netscape.