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Problem Installing VS .Net 2003 Trial on XP SP2

jkotuby
9/18/2004 4:16:20 PM

visual studio .net setup: I successfully installed the VS .NET 2003 Pro Trial from the Action Pak CD
on an XP machine at work that had SP1 installed. Trying the same install at
home so I could learn in my "spare time" results in problems.

The machine at home is a clean install of Win XP with SP2, IIS with
Frontpage Extensions and .NET Framework 1.1. Upon starting setup I get a
message that the "wrong versions" of prerequisites are installed. I believe
I am running MDAC 2.8. (FullInstallVer in the Registry says 2.81). My guess
is that all the prerequisite versions are actually newer than what setup
expects to find.

When I try to run the Step 1 to install prerequisites I get an InstallShield
error screen that begins with:

Common Command Line Parameters
/L Lanquage ID
/S Hide initialization dialog...etc.

When I click OK, the setup stops completely.

None of this happened on the SP1 machine at work.
Any ideas?
Thanks.......................

Re: Problem Installing VS .Net 2003 Trial on XP SP2

jkotuby
9/19/2004 11:24:29 AM

I looked further into the documentation and there was no mention of the
InstallShield parameter prompt. So I ran each of the PreRequisite programs
separately as suggested.

I tried starting the main setup.exe and it was at Step 2 (indicating that my
machine had passed the PreReq test). However clicking on the Step 2 link
again produced the same InstallShield parameter prompt.

I then ran the setup from the command line as suggested: n:\setup\Setup.exe
/NO_BSLN_CHECK
and the setup ran to completion. I am still curious about the InstallShield
parameter prompt and wonder if that will affect the operation of VS .NET.

If anyone has an answer for that mysterious prompt, please reply.
Thanks........

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