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VS 2005 beta setup blues... with a happy ending

The setup of the VS beta took more effort than I had expected. In the process I encountered some things worth sharing. The DVD image downloaded is a difficult one.

  • Virtual PC doesn't accept the image. 
  • Yesterday I mentioned a virtual DVD drive. That breaks time aftertime somewhere half way the installation process.
  • Don suggested copying the files contents to disk and running setup from disk. Again the virtual drive breaks.
  • Trying to burn a physical disk I trashed three disks and gave up again
  • Finally I found a machine running Nero Drive Image, another virtual DVD drive. Loaded the image over the network and shared the virtual drive over the network (x your fingers) and tried to install from that.

Presto:

Happy as a clown :>

Peter



Comments

Scott Galloway said:

I've used Daemon Tools successfully with this (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php), which has also proven itself over time to be the most stable tool for mounting virtual drives for me...oh, and it's free :-)
# July 7, 2004 3:15 PM

Ben said:

I agree with Scott's comment ... I had same problem mounting the DVD Iso from Virual PC and Daemon tools saved the day :-)
# July 7, 2004 7:53 PM

Peter van Ooijen said:

Thanks a lot ! Installed Daemon Tools and it's looking great. Should have had it before :>
# July 8, 2004 9:38 AM

evaggelos said:

very good
# November 23, 2004 1:55 AM

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