Borland developer studio 2006

[dzon]

Hi,

Just been asked to install this product on to several computers. There are 4 disks and a usual procedure of mine is to create a folder within a shared folder, which for the sake of this post I called borland Studio. I then create folders called disk 1, disk 2, etc and copy the contents of each disk into the appropiate folder.

I launch the install.exe from disk 1 and configure as I need and it goes along on its merry way. A third of the way through I get an error saying it cannot locate a file. It turns out that the file it wants is on disk 2 but gives me no option to browse for it, just 'ignore', 'retry' and 'abort'.

If I run the setup from CD, at this point it asks me for CD 2 and I have no problem installing it.

I have to install this product on 15 computers so it would take ages with one set of disks.

Any other ideas how to install this product from the network?

Cheers,

Dzon

 

[Griffyn]

Generally, you create .ISO image files of the CDs, pop them into a network share, and then install some CD virtualisation software, such as Daemon Tools (freeware). This sort of software creates a new drive letter that you can map to an .ISO file, and appears like a CD to the computer.

You can then start installing many copies of BDS2006 at once and simply change which .ISO file is being mapped to on each computer as it requires the next BDS2006 installation CD.

 

[dzon]

Thanks for the tip!