Screw This...I am staying with BootCamp 2.0

Jeez,
I blasted away my MacBook Pro - reinstalled Leopard, ran the Boot Camp assistant again, reinstalled Vista 32. Really this was a clean of an install as you can get. Ran the Boot Camp 2.0 installer successfully on Windows Vista. Great! I downloaded the Boot Camp 2.1 Exe from another machine put it on a stick and put it on my MacBook Pro (which I didn't even connect to the internet yet).
I figure, ok, this is a clean machine, no internet connection.
Well, the 2.1 update STILL didn't work. It got about 1/2 way through and then said "Cannot access the MSI file" or something like that. I tried re-running it and now I am getting "Error reading from file c:\windows\installer\925a0.msi".
Ugh!!!
I am staying with 2.0 until Apple sorts this out. If it doesn't work like this, when will it work (well, except for the people it has worked for, I guess)

jmFightSpam wrote:
Jeez,
I blasted away my MacBook Pro - reinstalled Leopard, ran the Boot Camp assistant again, reinstalled Vista 32. Really this was a clean of an install as you can get. Ran the Boot Camp 2.0 installer successfully on Windows Vista. Great! I downloaded the Boot Camp 2.1 Exe from another machine put it on a stick and put it on my MacBook Pro (which I didn't even connect to the internet yet).
I figure, ok, this is a clean machine, no internet connection.
Well, the 2.1 update STILL didn't work. It got about 1/2 way through and then said "Cannot access the MSI file" or something like that. I tried re-running it and now I am getting "Error reading from file c:\windows\installer\925a0.msi".
Ugh!!!
I am staying with 2.0 until Apple sorts this out. If it doesn't work like this, when will it work (well, except for the people it has worked for, I guess)
I believe that this issue is answered on this board in thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1499319&start=15&tstart=0
It seems that we need the very latest bootcamp drivers from the most recent Leopard DVDs. Apparently BC2.0 (the one I have that came with Leopard 10.5.0 DVD) is not enough. The BC version on the latest DVDs must be some intermediate version that allows 2.1 to install. Just a guess on my part, though.

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