Modern software products are most often distributed on optical disks (CD or DVD) and the installation script for the program is designed to work with a reader from these media. But not always a CD / DVD drive is installed in the computer on which the application is to be installed. There are several installation methods to avoid the need for an installation disc.
Instructions
Step 1
If the computer where you want to install the program belongs to a local network, you can use a disk reader of another computer on the same network. To do this, you first need to open access to the CD / DVD drive for network users on the computer where it is installed. Then, if you are using Windows, right-click the My Computer icon on the desktop of your computer without an optical drive and select Map Network Drive from the pop-up menu. The connection wizard will start, in which you need to specify the required device on the network using the dialog opened by clicking on the "Browse" button. If an installation disc has already been placed in the device, then after the wizard finishes, the program-menu recorded on it will start immediately with a set of options for further actions, including installing the program.
Step 2
Use the file containing the "image" of the installation disc if you cannot access the disc reader over the network. It is similar to a regular archive, but it contains not only copies of files, but also an exact copy of the structure of their location on the source disk. This allows using special emulation programs to use the file in the same way as a regular optical disc. If you do not have a ready-made file with a disk image containing the desired program, you will have to create it yourself.
Step 3
Install an application on your computer that can create images and restore them from files ("mount"). For example, it can be Daemon Tools Lite - a free version of the program that can be downloaded from the manufacturer's website (https://daemon-tools.cc/rus/products/dtLite). You need to install it on the computer on which the disk image will be created, and on the one where you need to install the program without using the disk. After installing the application, by selecting the item "DAEMON Tools panel" in its menu, open the control panel and click on the button "Create image". Following the instructions of the program, create an image of the optical disc and in any convenient way (via a flash drive, mobile phone, mp3 player, Internet, etc.) copy it to the computer in which you should do without the installation disc.
Step 4
Click the Daemon Tools icon in the notification area of the taskbar of the second computer with the right mouse button, go to the Virtual CD / DVD-ROM section of the drop-down menu and in the "Drive 0" subsection select the "Mount image" line. The emulator will open a window in which you need to specify the file with the disk image and click the "Open" button. After that, you can use the virtual installation disk of the program in the same way as a regular optical disk.
