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Got a minute? Or, a day? VPC Pain with DVD Installations

I load the VPC. I capture my DVD drive. I open Explorer. I click on d:\DVDbla. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait.

I try again.

I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait. I wait.

I finally get a view of the drive. I double-click the setup.exe for VS.

I get errors. I decide this sucks. I search on google. I find this: http://weblogs.asp.net/juntao/archive/2004/09/07/226418.aspx

Now I'm copying DVD to my local drive so can install the dang thing. So, I had time to blog for a few minutes. I could have written 20 other blogs today with all the other waiting...but I had false hope.

Can you feel my pain? Sigh.

The worst part, I think I went through this before, without the google step, but I forgot. Euphoric recall I guess.

Updated 30 minutes later...the saga continues...

So, I try to copy the VS directory of either my VSTS or VS Standard 2005 DVDs to the local drive. They all choke on this cab file: _15780_RTL_x86_enu_NETCF_v2.0.cab with a CRC check failure. Not sure if this is a known problem, yet. Let's see if it works by copying all but that file...sigh.

Updated 1 day later...it's done!

Well, it turned out more than just a few .cab files were failing CRC check. So, I used ISOBuster to unpack the .iso file onto my local, then installed from there. It took about 6 hours to install the Visual Studio Team System 2005 (that, after removing things I didn't need to use) but no gliches this time. Whew!

Now, I have to build another VPC that is NOT running on Indigo bits...

4/30/2005 1:06 AM What The? | Comments [8] | View reactions | Trackback