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Installing VMware ESXi 4.0 On A USB Drive From Linux
Find what your USB drive location is (/dev/sdb for example)
sudo fdisk -l
Mount the ISO
sudo mount -o loop VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-164009.x86_64.iso /mnt
Extract the image
tar zxf /mnt/image.tgz -C /tmp
Unmount the ISO
sudo umount /mnt
Change directories to the location with the image
cd /tmp/usr/lib/vmware/installer
Write the image to your USB drive
bzcat VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd.bz2 |sudo dd of=/dev/sdb