Tip for ISO images from MSDN

Saturday, April 12, 2003

Finally got the VS.NET 2003 bits downloaded...even though I complain about the speed (or lack thereof), thank goodness for MSDN Universal. While the lack of an ISO image for VS.NET was a little puzzling, it's definitely faster installing from the hard drive, so I'm not going to complain too much about it.

Now I'm in the process of d/ling the MSDN Library disks for the install, and I thought I'd offer a tip to folks who haven't figured this one out yet. The disk images that are available from the MSDN subscriber downloads use the file extension .img which, on my system at least, is registered to Paint Shop Pro. Needless to say, PSP is not terribly useful for burning CDs. So change the extension to .iso, which Easy CD Creator recognizes as an ISO image. Then you can simply right-click and select Record to CD (this assumes you've got Easy CD Creator, of course).

Can anyone who uses different software for burning ISO images verify whether this works with programs other than ECC?

5 Comments

Renaming .img to .iso also works with Nero Burning Rom.

adam...

Adam Hill - Saturday, April 12, 2003 6:42:00 PM

mostly wanksock the bloody msdn img downloads are randomly unavialble a lot of the time

mdma - Saturday, May 24, 2003 8:32:00 PM

Don't use WinISO to extract the .img file. I did this and then burned it to a CD but when I tried installing, it asked for MSDN disk 1.

David - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 10:48:00 PM

I downloaded it, burned it, and cannot install. Every attempt takes forever (and a day) and always ends with files not being found (I know they're there, I can see them in a directory listing).

Have tried copying them to HD first. Still same errors. WTF? Any hints?

Sam the Sham - Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:48:00 AM

Not sure what to tell you Sam. IIRC, it's probably an unsupported utility, so it may not have received as much testing as supported tools, and may not work on every configuration or with every burner.

G. Andrew Duthie - Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:22:00 AM

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