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It seems like Stuart is having problems installing VS 2005 CTP. I also had a bunch of problems, but I figured it was just the way I was installing it, but it seems that my problems may not have been unique. So here is what I had to do:
I’m installing VS 2005 CTP on a Win2K3 VirtualPC disk. I figured that I could connect to the VS2k5 image file via VirtualPC, but it seems as though VirtualPC doesn’t like the format. So on my host system (WinXP) I used the Virtual CD-Control Panel (which is an unsupported MS download that is only referenced on the MSDN FAQ page ) to test the image that worked fine, so I had VPC attach to the virtual CD drive (I know, it is a bit of a kludge), and then Win2k3 VPC could read the disk. I proceeded to try to install by about halfway thru the install it failed with an error stating that it could access the file “/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/1033/vsrwui.dll” even though I could find on the drive. So I dropped back and punted that solution, went to my host system, and copied all the directories and files out from the Virtual CD to a physical location (boy do I love my 160GB Seagate Firewire drive). Then I just shared that directory with the VPC and everything worked fine. Just remember to mark your share as permanent, so that when it reboots during the install, it can find the install files went it restarts.
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