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First-year students at Med School were receiving their first Anatomy class with a real dead human body. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.

The professor started the class by telling them: “In medicine, it is necessary to have 2 important qualities as a doctor. The first is That you not be disgusted by anything involving the human body.” For an example, the Professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the corpse, withdrew it and stuck his finger in his mouth.” Go ahead and do the same thing,” he told his students. The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns sticking a finger in the butt of the dead body and sucking on it.

When everyone had finished, the Professor looked at them and told them, “The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my Middle finger and sucked on my index finger. Now learn to pay attention.”

What a mess.

The HCL says it works with ESX 3.5u5, 4.0 and 4.0u1. No mention of ESXi.

This blog suggests it works with ESXi 3.5u1. I can verify that it does NOT work with ESXi 3.5u5.

My personal tests (a simple install and connection with VIC):

Fail – ESXi 3.5u5
Win – ESXi 4.0u1, ESX 3.5 (trial)

I installed the only compatible RAID card (from Dell, ~$200 SAS 6 ir) and ESXi 4.0u1 is still working.

UPDATE: Just checked the website and they’re saying ESXi 3.5u5 works. I believe I have BIOS 1.3.1 and found this NOT to be true. I can’t take down my system to check anymore.

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GREAT article on this…

Note if you copy/paste some of the commands the “-” comes out as “.” from that site to Putty.

Basically you add the new disk, usually for VMware you’ll run

echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan

partition it the same (replicate the mount points and of course allot equal or greater space then current data use) and then mount them and run

cd /mnt/sdb1 && dump -0uan -f – /boot | restore -r -f -
cd /mnt/sdb3 && dump -0uan -f – /| restore -r -f -

or something similar. I usually partition /boot, swap and then /.

This worked on my CentOS 5 in VMware.

And for the longhand…

fdisk /dev/sdb

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb3
mkswap /dev/sdb2

tune2fs -L "/boot" /dev/sdb1
tune2fs -L "/" /dev/sdb3

mkdir /mnt/sdb1 && mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
cd /mnt/sdb1 && dump -0uan -f – /boot | restore -r -f -

mkdir /mnt/sdb3 && mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3
cd /mnt/sdb3 && dump -0uan -f – / | restore -r -f -

grub-install
grub>root (hd1, 0)
grub>setup (hd1)
grub>quit

Most of the video is your typical creationism versus evolution argument. The gold is at the end – watch the last ~30 seconds.

Props to anyone that gets this and can laugh about it. Comment below if you lol’ed.