"B. Chernick" wrote:

> I'm trying to jury-rig an installation of MSDN for VS2005 from ISO disks. 
> The company I'm working for has an 'install drive' so I'm not sure of the
> pedigree of these directories.  Essentially, since I don't have a CD burner
> at my disposal, I'm trying to run the installation directly from the ISO
> images using Microsoft's Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel v2.0.1.1.
>
> The problem is as follows:  It doesn't matter if I run the setup on the
> first MSDN disk or call MSDN installation directly from VS2005's setup
> screen.  Either way I get an error message saying: "Error 1311. Source file
> not found.  U:\_17693_RTL_x86_enu_NET_Framework_SDK_HxS.cab.  Verify that the
> file exists and that you can access it."
>
> I should note that given the current mounting scheme, the 3 ISO images are
> disks T, U, and V and presumably software on the T drive should be running. 
>
> So how could it know about the U drive in the first place and why didn't it
> issue a standard Insert Disk prompt?   (The file definitely exists and I can
> even copy it.)