Installing VS.NET

[figler]

Hi.
I have MSDN subscription and am trying to install Visual Studio.NET using the CDs.
I insert CD 1 and am told that I need to update components (step 1). I am prompted to insert the disk labeled "Windows Component UPdate disk for Visual Studio.NET". I insert a disc labeled "Windows Component Update for Visual Studio.NET" and my CD-ROM cannot even read this disc -- I get an error "incorrect function".

Do any of you have *any* idea what is going on here? The discs are all March 2002 (I don't have later, subscription expired -- though MS tells me that license is still good).

I would like to get around this by directly installing the components that I need -- since the VS.NET installation disk seems to be working OK -- but I can't find anywhere on microsoft.com which components/versions are required!

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. -Brad

 

[jfrost10]

Hmmm...have you tried to get to the contents on teh disk by using Explorer, and just getting to the setup from there?

Jack

 

[figler]

Jack wrote:
"Hmmm...have you tried to get to the contents on teh disk by using Explorer, and just getting to the setup from there?"

Brad wrote:
my CD-ROM cannot even read this disc -- I get an error "incorrect function".

Jack, other people get the same error on their computers -- ditto for the .NET Framework SDK CD. Is anyone else able to open in Explorer the March 2002 Windows Component Update CD (not DVD)?

 

[jfrost10]

Heh, have you contacting MS about maybe just replacing the disks?! Sounds like if everyone is having the same issue, the disk is faulty somehow.

Jack

 

[figler]

Does anyone know where I can get a list of component versions that I need before installing VS.NET?

Thanks. -Brad

 

[Zarcom]

I would go with Jack's suggestion of getting a replacement. It sounds like a bad copy since I can read the Component CD fine.

Don't know where you could find that list. That'l do donkey, that'l do
Mark

 

[nimarii]

Hi, just wondering if you were ever able to get this issue resolved?

I'm trying to install the VS.NET 2003 upgrade, and I'm getting the same error message, except, I didn't get any kind of Windows Component CD with the install package...??

I tried searching online for it, but I can't seem to find any answers.