Installing office from the hard drive

K

KernDoug

Does anyone know if it is possible to copy the contents of the office cd to
the hard drive and then install the program. I have a notebook without a cd
drive and so I was going to network it and transfer the contents of the cd
directly to the hard drive. Any suggestions?
 
V

Van T. Dinh

You should be able to. After all, CDs and hard-disks are simply storage
media.

Alsi, for big network, network admin often use "network" installation of
software, meaning software being installed on work-stations with the server
as the source.

BTW, this newsgroup is for Microsoft Access (a database application), not
eneral computer "access". If you needs assitance to install Office, post to
the appropriate newsgroup for Office.

HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)
 
T

Tom Wickerath

To add to Van's answer, here is an article that I just came across recently:

Change the Local Installation Source After the Installation
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2003/journ/LISTool.htm

If you can spare the disk space, this might be a very useful thing to do. It means you won't get
that really annoying prompt to insert your Office Setup disk when you repair, install new
features or patch Office with a service pack.


Tom
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You should be able to. After all, CDs and hard-disks are simply storage
media.

Alsi, for big network, network admin often use "network" installation of
software, meaning software being installed on work-stations with the server
as the source.

BTW, this newsgroup is for Microsoft Access (a database application), not
eneral computer "access". If you needs assitance to install Office, post to
the appropriate newsgroup for Office.

HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)

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Does anyone know if it is possible to copy the contents of the office cd to the hard drive and
then install the program. I have a notebook without a
cd drive and so I was going to network it and transfer the contents of the cd directly to the
hard drive. Any suggestions?
 
T

Todd Shillam

KernDoug,

Sure is possible--that's what I would recommend too. First, whenever you
visit the Microsoft Office Update site, if you install your installation
files on the hard drive (just copy the I386 folder to your C: drive),
whenever the online update would ask for your installation CD, it won't
if your source files are on your hard drive--that is because there is a
key in the Windows registry that saves the value for the last
installation source for Microsoft Office.


--
Best regards,

Todd Shillam
Information Technology Consultant
Shillam Technology
http://shillamtechnology.point2this.com



Does anyone know if it is possible to copy the contents of the office cd
to
the hard drive and then install the program. I have a notebook without a
cd
drive and so I was going to network it and transfer the contents of the
cd
directly to the hard drive. Any suggestions?
 
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