Swapping physical discs is rare today. The modern and most reliable way to handle missing drivers is to create a custom installation ISO with the drivers already baked in.
The installer fails with a "no network adapters found" error. Esx Driver Cd
Alternatively, use community tools like the PowerShell script to merge the driver .zip directly into a custom bootable ISO file. Swapping physical discs is rare today
Once the driver loads and the hardware is detected, swap your original ESXi installation media back in to finish the setup. Esx Driver Cd