Downloaded VS.NET 2005 CTP - Now What

Published 25 March 04 07:57 PM | mhawley

Okay, so you just finished downloading the massive 2.67 GB .IMG file from MSDN, and go figure, you don't have a DVD burner available.  Time's crunching away until Apprentice starts, you haven't eaten, and all you want to do is get VS.NET 2005 CTP installed on that freshly installed VPC image.

But wait, theres a problem, that darn .IMG file is for burning DVDs only...VPC can't mount it. Man, that sucks - so with the help of a little Googling, I found Undisker which allowed me to open the .IMG file and extract the contents to my hard drive.  And the crowd goes wild!  Now, I have 5 minutes left until Apprentice, can I get it started installing?

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# David Findley said on March 25, 2004 11:12 PM:

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# Greg said on March 25, 2004 11:41 PM:

Daemon Tools works really well for me too. http://www.daemon-tools.cc/portal/portal.php

It should mount DVD sized images. At least I hope so, since my VS2005 is still downloading and I plan on using D-Tools to mount the image... :)

# Scott Sargent said on March 26, 2004 12:26 AM:

Daemon tools works, I had to mount the .img in the host os, and then grab the G: drive from VPC. Worked like a charm.

# TrackBack said on March 26, 2004 12:57 AM:
# TrackBack said on March 26, 2004 12:58 AM:
# TrackBack said on March 26, 2004 01:57 AM:
# Ba said on March 26, 2004 02:30 AM:

Now if it was only distributed with modern technology (torrent)

# Chris J. Breisch said on March 26, 2004 09:38 AM:

Original CD Emulator lets you mount the image as a drive.

http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025602,39066252s,00.htm

# matthew said on March 26, 2004 02:07 PM:

two solutions for CD images:

One: Winrar will open iso type images. Winrar is the best archiving tool, and beats Winzip or crap like that

Two: Nero Image Drive lets you mount CD images.

Burning downloaded images is a waste of a good disc

# Josh said on March 26, 2004 05:31 PM:

It is a DVD image, not a CD image. I think there are differences (but not positive). Does everyone's comments have that in mind? Do all of the ISO mounting programs work for mounting DVD's? If so, I'm surprised it doesnt work for VPC.

# Matt Hawley said on March 26, 2004 05:36 PM:

VPC doesn't like it...however I did use Original CD Emulator at work, and it worked without a hitch. The program is a little childish, wacky colors and all, but works great.

# TrackBack said on March 27, 2004 02:15 PM:
# TrackBack said on March 27, 2004 02:26 PM:
# milbertus said on March 27, 2004 02:36 PM:

I used IsoBuster to get at the contents, and it worked great.

# George Srendev said on April 16, 2004 03:20 PM:

Just rename the file to .ISO and it will do the magic.
Nero and I guess most other programs will recognize the image.
Also, you can read the file with Winrar (even without renaming it).

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