Greetings--
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From: William VanKeuren <[log in to unmask]>
>Hi all,
>I'm looking for information concerning running CD-ROMs
completely from
>the hard disk drive.
This can almost always be fairly easily done, given that you have
sufficient room for the CD-ROMs' contents. It often helps to
create a directory on the hard disk for the CD's contents, copy
the entire contents of the CD to that directory, then install
from there. Windows usually remembers the location of an
installation source. There are, however, caveats . . . . . .
>So to cut to the chase.
>1. Does anyone have an ideas about ways to trick the CD-ROM into
>thinking it's really running from the disk?
and this can be one of them. I carried out the above steps to
install Reader Rabbitt to my hard disk, and it resolutely refused
to run from that location. I solved this problem after
installing the program by looking for *.ini files associated with
it. This software has one called Rr1wincd.ini. (It is not in
the same directory as the program and data files for this
application, which is why you need to complete the installation
and search any directories the install routine creates for such
an *.ini file.) Once I found that file, I was able to edit the
one line in it to cause the executable to be pointed to the
directory where I copied the CD contents, rather than the drive
letter and directory for my CD-ROM. It can take some hunting,
but there should be some sort of *.ini file to do this for most
CD-ROM-based programs. (The only other location where this may
happen, it would seem, would be the registry, but try the *.ini
hunt first.)
Good luck,
Paul A. Shippert Library/Media Specialist
" . . . and I'm hovering like a fly
waiting for the windshield on the freeway." Genesis
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