As part of my ongoing CRM projects I had to install Visual Studio 2003 .NET because Windows SQL 2000 does not support Reports created with Visual Studio 2005. I wasnt too disturbed when it took 50 minutes to install on the laptop, but its is now over 2 hours later and the SP1 install is still running!  I recently installed the RSE from Eclipse on the Windows PC I have which also took a fair amount of time but not this long.  Why does it take so long to install a package which comes on 2 CD’s? The SP1 package was a single DVD so while it can hold a fair amount of data surely its not more than the whole product was originally?
I am sure the WDS doesnt take this long to install even with all of its components!
Chris…
WDS is pretty fast . . . I think it took about 30 minutes last time I installed it.
What CRM project are you working on. I am a CRM junkie and have a leaning for SugarCRM.
Yeah I am now loading Sugar CRM on my Gentoo Linux box to start the process of migrating away from our previous MS based solution! Has a few flaws and is missing some features for importing which should be there!
I will see how I get on with it, I then want to install it on the i5. I will build additional modules for key management and linking to my packaging product so it all fits together, well sometime!
Chris…