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VS 2005 download tips

  1. Please suspend your transfer or do not start it until mine is complete.  (Give me another couple hours.)
  2. Do not try to do a side-by-side install on your main machine.  I haven't tried this with this build, but I've found in the past that side-by-side installs aren't perfected until late in the product cycle and we're still very early.  This isn't something you want to try out yourself -- bad side effects can cause older versions to not function.  Let someone else give it a go first.
  3. If you're going to install to a VPC and already have a VPC w/the PDC VS.NET Whidbey, start uninstalling the PDC Whidbey pronto or create a new OS image.  Uninstalling PDC Whidbey in a VPC running at low priority (the default, I believe) can take a long time.
  4. And finally, don't expect to get the bits quickly.  You're going to be competing with a bunch of other hungry geeks for bandwidth/resources and your transfer times won't be optimal.  Acknowledge this and be happy that you'll get the bits eventually. 
Posted: Mar 25 2004, 11:58 PM by jeffreykey | with 4 comment(s)
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Ryan Farley said:

Jeff, I think you have the first tip wrong. I belive the recommeneded option is for everyone to stop downloading until *I* am done first. ;-)

(Currently 21%...)
# March 26, 2004 1:13 AM

Thomas Tomiczek said:

Some more tips:

::If you're going to install to a VPC and already
::have a VPC w/the PDC VS.NET Whidbey,

then, heck, be spmart enough to make abackup of the installed OS image BEFORE INSTALLING VS.NET. It is less than 3gb, and it is much faster to go back to an onld state.

::And finally, don't expect to get the bits quickly.

Downloading near optimal speeds.
# March 26, 2004 1:46 AM

Phil Scott said:

I just threw it on its own image myself. Isn't that the major benefit of VPC?

Anyways, what was odd was that when I tried to drag the .img file that I downloaded onto VPC, it wouldn't take an image file that big. So I extracted it and did a "network" install.

There is probably some really cool way to get around this in VPC, but I don't know what it is. So I had to extract the whole damn thing via isobuster before starting the install
# March 26, 2004 7:57 AM

Jeff Key said:

Thomas: Yes, that's the idea solution, but not everyone has done it. Congrats on the speed.

Phil: FWIW, VirtualCD, which is on MSDN, will let you extract the files as well.
# March 26, 2004 9:31 AM