Registered: Oct 1999
Location: blackwood,nj,08028
Posts: 16

How would I go about installing the cd-rom set-up disk for visor to my office terminal if i lack a cd-rom drive in my office terminal. is there anyway i could save the cd-rom onto my zip drive at my home computer and then bring the zip drive into work, or is there a possible site that i could downloan the total executable installation program from. does anyone have any idea how i can do this? i really need help and it would make my life 100 times easier

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Reston, Va, USA
Posts: 41

If you can fit the setup files on the zip drive it should work from there. Otherwise, if you can somehow copy the install stuff to a directory on the network it should work too.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 42

It should fit fine on a zip disk - the total installation (from memory) only requires 20Mb HD space - the CD can't really contain much more than this I would have thought, and certainly not over 100Mb!

The only problem you might encounter is if the installation software checks to see whether its running from a CD or not (ie. as a simple copy protection thingy) - if this happens, you will need one of the freeware utilities that tricks your computer into thinking its running from a CD-ROM - unfortunately I can't remember the name of it...? (Hopefully you won't need it - but if you do, I'm sure someone here knows what its called.)

Alternatively, I'm pretty sure Handspring will supply the program on floppies (at extra cost) - there was something on their web-site about it... when it was actually up .

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Texan in Calgary for a while
Posts: 1361

I keep my Palm III cd and Bonus pack on a network drive. The Palm III CD is 11.4MB, and the Bonus Pack (had PocketMirror) is 10.9MB. I would suspect the Visor CD will be a combination of both.

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: blackwood,nj,08028
Posts: 16

is there any type of portable cd-drive i can purchase to accomplish this task?

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: West Hollywood, CA 90069, USA
Posts: 126

Is this topic Random Questions?

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Registered: Oct 1999
Location: blackwood,nj,08028
Posts: 16

does anyone have any idea regarding this?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Schaumburg, IL
Posts: 151

Murphy:

Sure, if you're interested in spending the cash you get your hands on a parallel port driven CD-Rom drive. Check folks like Toshiba, Sony, etc.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: brooklyn, ny, usa
Posts: 190

murphy,

all of the data on the cd take up about 15MB (3MB user guide included). i'd say try it.

should work.

sluggo

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: blackwood,nj,08028
Posts: 16

Sluggo,
How would you go about doing it

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: brooklyn, ny, usa
Posts: 190

i would just copy the entire cd (root dir and all) to the zip disk.

i don't think you can use the autorun off the zip, but the setup file is in the palmsw/disk1 dir.

sluggo