-CDS INSTALATION-

FOR Visual Studio.NET 2005 /2003 ENTERPRISE DEVELOPER

CD NAMES: VSENTD1,VSENTD2,...
FOR Visual Studio.NET 2005 /2003 ARQUITECH DEVELOPER
CD NAMES: VSENARD1,VSENARD2,...
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-DVD INSTALATION-
FOR Visual Studio.NET 2005 /2003 ENTERPRISE DEVELOPER
DVD LABEL NAME : VSENTD1

FOR Visual Studio.NET 2005 /2003 ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

DVD LABEL NAME: VSENARD1
for CD's Enterprise 2003 and Enterpise Architect: 2003: VSENARD1..2...3
DVD: DVD1
Professional 2005, Team Edition 2005 CDs: VSVSTDD1 ... 2...3...

I expected the same problem.

I solved it that way:
1. share your CD/DVD drive.
2. net use <some_drive> \\<your_computer_name\<cdrom_share> (ex: net use k: \\de
sktop\cdrom)
3. install VS from mapped drive.
This works for me.
Best regards.
This worked for me with the en_vs_2005_pro_dvd.iso.
My steps were equivalent:
1) Share the dvd drive in Windows Explorer
2) on the address bar type \\<my_computer_name> to verify share, right-click->ma
p network drive
3) on mapped drive, navigate to <some_drive_letter>:\vs, double click "autorun.e
xe"

How to make a Visual Studio .NET 2003 DVD

(written with Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003 in mind)
Requires: Visual Studio .NET 2003 on 6 CDs (2x Visual Studio, 1x Windows Prerequ
isites, 3x MSDN), and a hex editor (or other editor that can handle binary files
).
Copying files
When you are prompted to confirm replacing files/folders during copying, always
say Yes or Yes to All.
* First, create three directories whereever you plan to burn the DVD from -
MSDN, VSPROD and VSWCUD1.
* Copy the contents of the Visual Studio .NET Prerequisites CD into the VSWC
UD1 directory.
* Copy Visual Studio .NET CDs 1 and 2 into the VSPROD directory.
* Copy MSDN Library CDs 1, 2 and 3 into the MSDN directory.
Making changes
Here's where you'll need the hex editor - note that all file locations (which ar
e in hexadecimal) are based on my CDs and may not necessarily be correct for you
. It should be obvious if they're not, as the thing you're replacing won't be th
ere.
|0| represents a null character, the value 0. It will usually appears as 00 in a
hex editor. Other than that, all the original and replacement values are plain
ASCII text.
* Changes to vs_setup.msi (in the VSPROD directory) - replace the CD names w
ith the new DVD's name, and also one filename is too long for the Joliet spec an
d has to be shortened.
o 4CF5FE - replace HelloWorld.sfl with HeloWrld.sfl|0||0|
o 4CFF55 - replace HelloWorld.sfl with HeloWrld.sfl|0||0|
o 6485B5 - replace VSPROD2 with VSN2003
o 6485BC - replace VSPROD1 with VSN2003
* Also, you'll need to rename the actual file - VSPROD\Program Files\Microso
ft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vb7\VB Samples\SFL\Console-Localization-SatelliteAsse
mblies_VBLocalizedHelloWorld.sfl to Console-Localization-SatelliteAssemblies_VBL
ocalizedHeloWrld.sfl
* Changes to msdn.msi (in the MSDN directory) - replace the CD names with th
e new DVD's name.
o 327A2E - replace MSDVVSD2 with VSN2003|0|
o 3293F9 - replace MSDVVSD1 with VSN2003|0|
o 329401 - replace MSDVVSD3 with VSN2003|0|
Writing the DVD
All you need to do here is write the entire contents of the directory containing
your 3 main directories onto a DVD, and ensure the DVD is named VSN2003.
To install
* Run D:\VSPROD\SETUP.EXE
* If any prerequisites are required - ie step 1 is highlighted, select the s
tep and enter D:\VSWCUD1 into the path box. Click OK, and continue as normal.
* After prerequisites, continue with the main install (step 2) as normal.
* For step 3, MSDN, select the step, enter D:\MSDN into the path box when pr
ompted, and click OK and continue as normal.
* Note - You should not at any time (other than when initially selecting ste
ps 1 and 3) be prompted to insert a different CD. If you are, either you made a
mistake somewhere, or (hopefully not) my instructions are wrong.