September 25, 201213 yr I got a Kingston reader and SD-card plus a Pro-license for it. Can I just copy over the contents of the old stick and make the new one bootable afterwards? Are there any hidden files or something else to thinks off. When I want to upgrade is RC8a the best bet for a system with X9SCM-F, E3-1240 and a couple of flashed M1015s? For now just unraid later ESXi.
September 25, 201213 yr I got a Kingston reader and SD-card plus a Pro-license for it. Can I just copy over the contents of the old stick and make the new one bootable afterwards? Are there any hidden files or something else to thinks off. Before you start, make a screencopy of your drive assignment screen, so that you know which drive is the parity drive (in case something goes wrong). See http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation. You should offcourse make the new USB stick bootable, rename it to UNRAID and you should use the .key file for that USB stick (old .key file is linked to the old USB stick). No hidden file that I know of. Just copy everything over ( see http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Files_on_the_unRAID_flash_drive). When I want to upgrade is RC8a the best bet for a system with X9SCM-F, E3-1240 and a couple of flashed M1015s? For now just unraid later ESXi. I use "5.0-rc6-r8168-test2" with "open_vm_tools-2012.05.21.724730_unRaid5.0rc6r8168test-i686-3Zeron.tgz" ATM. Works OK for me. I was also afraid to install ESXi, but it was a peace of cake (after many hours of reading on the forum ) I suggest you do the following (from memory, I could forget something or say something completely wrong ) - bare computer without M1015's, install just your SSD/spinner for your VM images. - install ESXi on your ESXi USB stick, boot it - play a little bit with it and install a windows VM, play a little bit with this VM - in this windows VM, you add a new virtual HD (see http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=16270.0, do not use that virtual disk (is for an old unraid version)), I suggest 200Mb or larger, name it for instance UNRAID_BOOT, copy bzimage & bzroot to this virtual disk (use same version as you will use on the unraid USB stick). - disconnect the UNRAID_BOOT VM disk from the windows machine - on your laptop, prepare the unraid USB stick as you would normally do, (use same version as on UNRAID_BOOT), put the correct VM tools on this USB stick ( see http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11449.0) - unplug the ESXi stick and put the unraid stick in, no unraid drives or M1015's needed yet, just see that it boots ok - if boot is OK (you could assign the SSD/spinner as data drive (DON'T DO IT, just see that you can)), then put in the M1015's and the unraid drives inside, boot and see that this works (if you transfer an existing unraid install, use the picture to know which drive is parity and put the other drives in the corresponding slots, if parity drive is correct, then you won't lose any data) - if unraid works, shut down and put the ESXi usb stick also in the machine, make sure that the ESXi stick boots, not the unraid stick (unraid stick is second boot device) - in ESXi, make a new VM with the UNRAID_BOOT disk as bootdrive, use passthrough for the 3 M1015's (see the Atlas thread) - start the VM unraid and it should work Everything should be fine and working now... - with both USB sticks inside, unraid will boot via the UNRAID_BOOT virtual drive under ESXi - pull the ESXi stick and unraid boots "classic" (from the unraid usb stick, only unraid on the machine) addons should be placed on the unraid USB stick (as without ESXi), the virtual drive is only for fast booting.
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