[techtalk] Re: Assign?
- From: "Bob Carter" <kootenay@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:06:03 -0700
Hi Neil,
A very belated response - I was just going over my inbox and reread your
post - but another solution occurred to me. I have an XP netbook without
optical drive and what I do when I want to install software from discs is
network with a desktop that does have one, and set its optical drive to be
shared. As long as the two computers share a common workgroup name they can
share the use of not only folders but drives as well, including the optical
drive. Once they're networked you can navigate to the other computer's
optical drive and run the setup.exe file for the program you're installing
and away you go.
Hope this helps, and that Santa was good to you! ;-)
Cheers,
Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:techtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Neil Ives
> Sent: December 16, 2008 12:26 AM
> To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [techtalk] Re: Assign?
>
>
> 2008/12/15 Bob Carter <kootenay@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Neil,
> >
> > In Windows external flash memory such as USB sticks and SD Cards are
> treated
> > like drives natively. Plug them in and away you go; they will appear as
> a
> > drive with a letter assigned automatically.
> >
> > You can install software, and likely boot your netbook from these
> devices;
> > the later being dependant on the BIOS's capacity to do so.
> >
> > You can run software that doesn't need to be installed (that is, create
> > registry entries and otherwise deposit files necessary to run all over
> > Windows subdirectories) directly from external drives, flash or
> otherwise,
> > as well.
> >
> > Hope that answers your question.
>
> Maybe. Thanks.
> I believe, (well actually I know) that Santa is bringing me a Samsung
> netbook (NC10) for Chrimbo. I will want to install software to it. I
> was just wondering if I will be able to copy the contents of the
> Installation disks to another device and install from there. I don't
> currently own a portable CD drive, although I could borrrow one so
> it's no big deal.
>
> --
> Neil Ives
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