"Be DAMN SURE you have enough disk space on your C"... Yes, and plenty of time. Some people are claiming between two and three hours to complete the installation.
This is extracted from the release notes (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=928957) ... Service pack installation takes longer than the original product installation: Installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1 takes longer than installing the original release version because the SP1 installation is much like a product installation, but with additional installation tasks. Installation time depends on which product is installed and the computer’s configuration. Installation requires significant disk space: Disk space equal to that taken by the original product installation may be needed to install a service pack. If you have more than one Visual Studio product installed, you will need disk space for each service pack installation. You can find an estimate of the required disk space on the download page for the service pack. Visual Studio 2005 SP1 tries to install multiple times: The service pack will run multiple times if you have multiple Visual Studio products installed on your computer. Do not start the installation more than once. ... And this from the download page ... a.. Hard disk space required: 6.2GB a.. This requirement can increase substantially if multiple Visual Studio® 2005 products are installed on the target computer. ... Fernando Tubio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sébastien Lorion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 8:37 AM Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Word of caution about the installation of VS2005 SP1 SP1 is out now ... so before you install it: Be DAMN SURE you have enough disk space on your C, or the installation will backtrack the *whole* thing, even there was 6 minutes left out of a gazillon. No. No retry button. FYI, I had more than 2 GB free on my C. I still do not know how much I need, but I will move thing around to have double that. Oh, and if the installation fails, it will leave the whole .msp sitting in c:\windows\installer and when you start over, it will copy it *another* time. Ah, and it loads every single bit of the patch in RAM. Yep, that's 450 MB. Really, I don't know what to say ... Sébastien www.sebastienlorion.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor� http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
