"Amaxis" wrote:

> Yeah, new to Visual Studio, but I've been around long enough to know
> somethings wrong! I installed the free Visual Web Developer and Visual Basic
> Express - went fine. And am having fun with it. I'm working on an MCAD and
> bought Visual Studio.NET 2003 Academic (I am a student, a bit older than the
> norm) since the tests are based on it. Problem is I go to install it with the
> first CD, and I get a window saying I need prerequisites and asks for that
> disc... I put the disc in, click OK (for drive D, which it's in) and
> nothing... the disc spins for a second, the VS.NET Setup box goes away... and
> nothing. Any reason why this won't install? Got plenty of horsepower