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| Thread ID: 128101 | 2012-12-02 21:54:00 | How can multi-DVD software install from USB thumb drives instead of optical drive? | d-jones (6833) | Press F1 |
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| 1316016 | 2012-12-02 21:54:00 | Simple problem: Software provided on 2x DVD discs - now want to install on Laptop which has no optical drive, only USB ports for input. The first disc software installs fine, but I get stuck at the prompt "Insert Disc 2". How do I set up files or thumb drives so that the prompt "Insert Disc 2" can continue from a USB drive instead? I have looked at *.ini files without seeing the solution by changing commands. I don't know much about how they work anyway. Thanks, DJ |
d-jones (6833) | ||
| 1316017 | 2012-12-03 00:05:00 | What you may have to do is use something like ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/), on a computer that has a DVD drive, and rip the two discs to ISO files. Put these onto a USB pen drive and copy them to the laptop that has no optical drive. On that laptop use something like Virtual CloneDrive (www.slysoft.com) to mount the ISOs so that the laptop sees them as the original discs then run the setup from there. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1316018 | 2012-12-03 00:09:00 | One way would be to create iso files of the disk and copy them onto the thumb drive and install Daemon tools or alcohol 120% to mount them as virtual disks, when asked for disk 2 you can then unmount the first iso and mount the 2nd. What's the software, have you tried googling "installl xxxsoftware from thumb drive" ? Edit: Snap, Cya beat me to it. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1316019 | 2012-12-03 00:19:00 | Is Virtual Clone Drive now free? I vaguely recall it costing in the past, which was why I'd been using Daemon Tools Lite? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1316020 | 2012-12-03 00:57:00 | Is Virtual Clone Drive now free? I vaguely recall it costing in the past, which was why I'd been using Daemon Tools Lite? AFAIK it's always been free...:) On their download page it's at the bottom of the list and has (Freeware) next to it and always has done when I've downloaded it and I have been using it for years (until I moved to Win8 as it can mount ISOs natively) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1316021 | 2012-12-03 01:28:00 | It's free but you also get it if you get CloneCD which isn't free. You can also use MagicISO's MagicDisc www.magiciso.com |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1316022 | 2012-12-03 01:32:00 | Hmm OK maybe I got them confused back in the day. Clever me :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1316023 | 2012-12-03 01:36:00 | Better to run both anyway, if you want to support more image formats. Each one has support for types the other doesn't. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1316024 | 2012-12-03 02:06:00 | Just a related question. If there are files that have the same filename between the different CDs. How does one work around that? I have used Daeman Tools, you have a virtual CD that may be CD1 but what about CD2? You can have extra virtual CDs but those would be different drive letters. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1316025 | 2012-12-03 02:57:00 | If the program installs from multiple discs it's the same procedure as with physical ones. Except instead where you would normally eject the disc and replace it with the next one, you unmount the first image from the virtual drive and mount the next one instead. As usual, the installer program will tell you when to swap discs. |
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