Yep of course I downloaded BOTH .RAR files as instructed!! :D
From what I've discovered... Windows XP (32-bit) is horrible at generating custom .ISO files from an OEM.tgz. Lesson learned.
After much frustration and reading--I present to you--ESXi 4.1U1:
~ # esxcfg-nics -l
Name PCI...
Am having trouble getting 4.1U1 to work--let alone ESXi version 5.0.0 (which according to forum folks doesn't fully support newer LAN chipsets). Am thinking that I may need a modified simple.map/pci.id within the OEM.tgz -- however am not entirely sure if this is a requirement for everything to...