Most certainly not alone, I tried to install 5 times so far. gets into Dotnet
Framework v3.5 x64 and crashes every time with a 1602 error in the log file
"user cancelled instalation" ???????.
Even the Virtual disk version causes huge problems with hangups and black
screens. thats on a 3 gig machine with 4 Gb RAM
it doesn't surprise me, anything 64 bit and Vista seems to be destined to
failure. I'm seriously thinking of going back to 32 bit XP until Microsoft
gets its act together on x64 let alone Vista.

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> Nice not to be alone! I guess we're going to have to wait and see if the
> automated feedback from the setup process results in a fix by the next CTP.
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Peter Jamieson - 25 May 2007 07:59 GMT
> it doesn't surprise me, anything 64 bit and Vista seems to be destined to
> failure. I'm seriously thinking of going back to 32 bit XP until Microsoft
> gets its act together on x64 let alone Vista.
I have been wondering about that too, certainly if their /new/ software
won't even install on x64. At the moment it's not a sufficiently critical
issue for me though.
> Even the Virtual disk version causes huge problems with hangups and black
> screens. thats on a 3 gig machine with 4 Gb RAM
Just out of interest, you don't happen to be using an Asus motherboard in
your system? It's just that I had a lot of trouble with Vista with 4Gb
because the BIOS uses some sort of memory mapping approach and I eventually
had to switch it off, reducing the visible memory to something like 2.8Gb.
It makes no difference to the orcas install but thought I'd mention it
anyway (although the symptoms are difficult to miss:-) )
Peter Jamieson
> Most certainly not alone, I tried to install 5 times so far. gets into
> Dotnet
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Peter Jamieson - 25 May 2007 11:26 GMT
BTW, I had another go at this today and installed the .NET 3.5 framework
manually first using
\WCU\dotNetFramework\dotNetFX35\x64\netfx35_x64.exe
Everything else then installs, and so far it seems to work (i.e. I haven't
got very far yet).
Still various problems with SQL Server installation but I think that's down
to previous partially successful installs and can probably be sorted out.
Peter Jamieson
> Most certainly not alone, I tried to install 5 times so far. gets into
> Dotnet
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