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Rmt9x.mst not found error VS 2005 setup -- use Daemon Tools instead of other mounters

I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on windows vista (december beta). When the installer tries to copy the temporary files to start the installation, I get an error that says that the \vs\Setup\Rmt9x.mst file cannot be copied. I have already installed this copy of Visual Studio in Windows XP and it worked perfectly.

[323 byte] By [becko] at [2007-12-30]

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# 1

I've just switched back to windows xp. I reinstalled Visual Studio 2005 without getting any error. The \vs\Setup\Rmt9x.mst file is in the Vs2005 DVD and nothing seems to be wrong with it. I just don't understand why I can't install Vs2005 on windows vista.

becko at 2007-9-5 >

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# 2

What build of Vista are you trying to install VS on?

QuanT at 2007-9-5 >

# 3

Microsoft Windows Vista 32Bit Build 5270.

becko at 2007-9-5 >

# 4

I get the same problem. When I try to install VS2003 on Vista Beta 2, I get "cannot copy Rmt9x.mst..." error. This after I had to stop "windows defender" from starting up or else I had 2 setup.exe instances loaded and VS would not even start to install.

jpatrick62 at 2007-9-5 >

# 5

Have you tried copying the layout to your harddrive and installing from there? I'm wondering if the media might be bad (if a bad batch got sent out).

QuanT at 2007-9-5 >

# 6

I get the same problem, too.

but,

>Have you tried copying the layout to your harddrive and installing from there?

was successfully done.

Vista protected copying rmt9x.mst from setup.exe ?

Kaz at 2007-9-5 >

# 7

Do you mean you tried copying it over but windows stopped you form copying over the rmt9x.mst file?

We tried to reproduce this on the same Vista build and it worked on our machines.

QuanT at 2007-9-5 >

# 8

For me, the Rmt9x.mst file seems to be alright. I succesfully copied it to the hard drive. Also, I just installed Visual Studio on Windows Xp. That sugests me that there is no problem with the media. The problem seems to be related to Windows Vista.

becko at 2007-9-5 >

# 9

Not sure if there's anything else you can try.

Do you have access to a newer Vista build?

QuanT at 2007-9-5 >

# 10

Same problem here... It is definitly not a bad file problem. Other things I've tried... logging on as the built in administrator and disabling every Defender, UAP and security setting I could find.

I'm running Vista 32 Bit (newer build than 5270, but don't think I'm allowed to say which build)

Next Day... Well, I thought I'd try VS 2005 on Vista again (it has a similar install problem, but with 'gencomp.dll'). While all the above security was still disabled, I copied the DVD to a hard drive and installed from there. It worked fine. Same was not true for VS .net however. Still haven't gotten it to install on Vista.

JoelLeavitt at 2007-9-5 >

# 11

same thing happens to me.

Vista Build 5270 and VS 2003 .NET Architect. I'm going to try and copy the file off another PC and see if it works.

(btw, i'm posting from firefox because IE 7 restarts after logging in to Passport. ;) )

digitalmercenary at 2007-9-5 >

# 12

yay. copied the VS2003 disc1 directory tree to the harddrive and rmt9x.mst magically appeared. Same as the guy above. I wonder what gives.

digitalmercenary at 2007-9-5 >

# 13

I have the same problem with the final version of Vista Business (VLK).

I never got "Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel for Windows XP" to work on any build of Vista, so I didn't try it with the final version. I had previously used Virtual Clone Drive 5.1.4.5 (that's my favorite mounter - double click the ISO and go!), but although it appears to work for SOME software on Vista, e.g. I was able to install Office 2007 Enterprise Edition, it must have some bugs with Vista because I could NOT install Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Developers. I got the error you describe here. I tried MountISO also with the same problem. I also tried copying the ISO locally and tried manually copying all the files from the ISO and had the same problem. So I stumbled across this link (http://www.mohundro.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,865fcaca-d9e4-4bba-a92f-32a68685a9c3.aspx) and gave it a try. After uninstalling Virtual Clone Drive I rebooted for kicks and then installed Daemon Tools V4.08HE (32-bit). Be sure to UNCHECK the Search Tools option to avoid the spyware (unless you WANT the spyware ;-).

Anyway, it seems to work - it got past the point where the others were failing and VS.NET 2005 is installing now.

lex3001 at 2007-9-5 >

# 14

Hi,

Thanks for all your solutions. I got the basic idea of how to go forward.

I was getting the same error ( " cannot copy Rmt9x.mst file " while copying the files to temp folder. I rectified it by copying the 'setup' folder' to my local and re-running the setup.exe from local itself.

Now to install the application fully, i ran the setup from the DVD / network but after few intital steps, got 1316 : network error stating can't find vs_setup.msi.. .

From here one there are two approaches, "either locate the missing file in DVD/network, copy it in windows installer and click on re-try" or "copy the full visual studio installtion package into local (e.g. C Big Smile rive) and re-run the setup".

I followed the later and got my VS 2005 successfully installed.

Thanks & Regards,

Praful

k.praful at 2007-9-5 >

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