Even more Vista Weirdness

I've been trying to fix my VS.NET / IIS issue on Vista for sometime now. Last night, I disabled and then re-enabled IIS.

Well, that made matters worse.

Now when I try to use IIS as a Projects webserver instead of Cassini, I get the "Must enable IIS, ASP NET and IIS6 Compatability' message, even though alll those things ARE enabled.

So today I set out to repair VSNET 2005 and Orcas, hoping that would resolve the issue.

The maintenance mode of VS.NET 2005 took forever (almost 2 hours), as soon as it completed I tried to run VS.NET SP1.

But when I right-clicked on the SP1 exe (to run elevated), it was taking forever for anything to happen, no dialouge box, no nothing but a spinning green halo.

I walked away for a moment and when I returned, my PC was booted into DOS.

There it looked like some other OS was trying to boot.

It said it was Caldera dr-dos 7.

I have never installed caldera and am not really even sure what it is.

The Caldera dos screen sat there for minutes (Searching for USB HDD Devices...), so I hard booted it.

Again it booted into Caldera.
This happened 4 times until it finally booted Vista...

WTF is going on here, anyone have ANY clue?

OK, so I figured out what was causing this, but still would be interested in why.

Booting with the VS.NET 2005 DVD in causes this, but I don't get the usual 'press any key to boot from disk'.

It just boots caldera.

Does this happen to everyone when they boot with the VS.NET dvd in, or is something awry with my system?

Dylan C wrote:



phreaks wrote: OK, so I figured out what was causing this, but still would be interested in why. Booting with the VS.NET 2005 DVD in causes this, but I don't get the usual 'press any key to boot from disk'. It just boots caldera. Does this happen to everyone when they boot with the VS.NET dvd in, or is something awry with my system?

....How could you boot off of the Visual Studio dvd....?

No idea,
I put the dvd in and rebooted.

Caldera Dr Dos came up instead of Vista.

Dylan C wrote:



phreaks wrote:  Dylan C wrote:  phreaks wrote: OK, so I figured out what was causing this, but still would be interested in why. Booting with the VS.NET 2005 DVD in causes this, but I don't get the usual 'press any key to boot from disk'. It just boots caldera. Does this happen to everyone when they boot with the VS.NET dvd in, or is something awry with my system? ....How could you boot off of the Visual Studio dvd....? No idea, I put the dvd in and rebooted. Caldera Dr Dos came up instead of Vista.

Is it the VS2005 Professional Edt. CD 1?

VS.NET DVD (From MSDN), burnt with Nero 7.

Let me know what happens.

Nero will use Dr-Dos to make a bootable disk if you don't provide your own boot image

Chances are you burned the disk wrong in the first place

 

DCMonkey wrote:



Nero will use Dr-Dos to make a bootable disk if you don't provide your own boot image

Chances are you burned the disk wrong in the first place

 

Not sure how I could do it wrong. It's pretty simple.

Nero--> Disk From Image-->Choose Iso --> Burn Now

I dunno, perhaps I just wasn't paying attention to some other property.

I may go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty (like, 100%) sure we don't ship Caldera bootable images

PaoloM wrote:

I may go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty (like, 100%) sure we don't ship Caldera bootable images

But are you *absolutely* sure? Maybe you should go check...

PaoloM wrote:

I may go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty (like, 100%) sure we don't ship Caldera bootable images

hehe, I didn't think so, but I didn't even know what Caldera was