> but assigning a .iso to it works as well. I don't know if this is related to the empty CD-ROM drive problem or not, but ESX3.5 FDD is painfuly slow. It takes a long time for a cpu server to boot from floppy. The booting process looked almost hanged up. --
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:30 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> >> wrote: >>>> Do you have the CD-ROM drive attached to the VM while you boot it? >>>> >>>> I remember Plan 9 didn't start when you have an empty CD-ROM drive >>>> connected to the VM on ESX 3.5. So I removed the CD-ROM drive from VM's >>> >>> if this is the case, it seems simple enough to fix. can anyone confirm? >> >> Yes, I saw that problem as well. >> >> ron > > interesting. i just tried it and it works. the admin tool > (lab manager) wont allow the cd drive to be removed > but assigning a .iso to it works as well. > > i wonder why? > > > -- YAMANASHI Takeshi
