[ESXi5.5U2] Install ESXi on VMWare Host with less than 4 GB of RAM

I found this solution in the Spiceworks VMWare Forum by User ZEFiR and after testing it succesfully with ESXi 5.5 Update 2, I wanted to preserve it for future use. The Original Post can be found
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/411970-installing-esxi-5-5-with-4gb-ram-memory_size-error?page=1#entry-3816226. Thanks a lot to ZEFiR for sharing this very useful piece of knowledge :)!

  1. Boot from VMware ESXi 5.5

  2. wait “Welcome to theVMware ESXi 5.5.0 Installation” screen

  3. Press Alt+F1 for enter console and login as “root” (no password needed)

  4. go to:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/weasel/util/  

delete file:

rm upgrade_precheck.pyc;
  1. remove readonly flags:
mv upgrade_precheck.py upgrade_precheck.py.def  
cp upgrade_precheck.py.def upgrade_precheck.py
  1. set permissions:
chmod 755 upgrade_precheck.py
  1. open script in vi:
vi upgrade_precheck.py
  1. find “MEM_MIN_SIZE”,
pres "a" (edit mode. "(4 * 1024 - 32)" change to "(2 * 1024 - 32)", pres 'ESC', run command ":wq" (save & exit)
  1. look installer PID:
ps -c | grep weasel
  1. kill installer (PID = process Nr.):
kill PID

Installer process run automatically (with modified config script).

Continue from “Welcome to theVMware ESXi 5.5.0 Installation”

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