To go along with all of my Team System woes, my work laptop also died over the weekend. I have a fast approaching deadline and for the most part Friday and today have been a wash. I'm currently using terminal server to terminal into our build system so I can write code until the IS department is finished re-imaging my laptop.
On top of that I'm still having Team System issues. I continue to get a file corrupted error when I install. I'm still fairly convinced that this is my issue and not something bad with the beta. All I have is the DVD iso for Team System. Since I don't have a DVD burner I'm limited to trying to mount it somehow. Here's what I've tried:
1) From the virtual machine, map a network drive to the real machine that has the iso. Mount that iso using the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP that I got from MSDN subscriber downloads. No dice.
2) From virtual server, create a new 4GB virtual hard drive and mount it in the virtual machine. From the virtual machine, repeat step one, but copy the files to the new virtual hard drive instead.
3) From virtual server, mount the iso in the virtual machine.
4) Repeat step 3, but copy the files to the virtual HD instead.
5) From the virtual machine, map a network drive to the real machine that has the iso. Use Iso buster to extract the files to the virtual hard drive.
5) From virtual server create a new linked virtual hard disk. (With this one I wasn't able to mount it... the error says you can't mount linked virtual hard disks which begs the question... what do you use a linked virtual hard disk for then? I'm sure I'm missing something).
I know the iso works because I have installed to a local machine with it using the Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP.
It seems that nothing is going right latley... maybe I'm cursed.
posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 7:03 PM