Downloaded VS.NET 2005 CTP - Now What

Published Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:57 PM

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?

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

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# Greg said on Thursday, 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 Friday, 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 Friday, March 26, 2004 12:57 AM
# TrackBack said on Friday, March 26, 2004 12:58 AM
# TrackBack said on Friday, March 26, 2004 1:57 AM
# Ba said on Friday, March 26, 2004 2:30 AM

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

# Chris J. Breisch said on Friday, March 26, 2004 9:38 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 Friday, March 26, 2004 2:07 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 Friday, March 26, 2004 5:31 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 Friday, March 26, 2004 5:36 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 Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:15 PM
# TrackBack said on Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:26 PM
# milbertus said on Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:36 PM

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

# George Srendev said on Friday, April 16, 2004 3:20 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).