Re: create mountable image of installation dvds
On 09/25/2011 12:40 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I purchased a Bible concordance program for the i386, and received the
> program on a set of DVDs. The problem is that I need to install the
> program on a laptop which has no optical drive, but only USB ports.
>
> So it appears to me that I need to find:
>
> (1) a procedure for creating a set of DVD images (using a desktop
> machine with a DVD optical drive), and
>
> (2) a procedure for copying the images to a set of USB flash
> sticks, so that the images can be read as if they were on DVD.
Most likely, if you simply copy the files to the flash drive and run the
install from there it'll work. While some Windows programs may try to
block that (especially games), Linux generally does not impose such
silly (and easily bypassable) restrictions.
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br
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