How in the name of all that games do you install software without a DVD drive?

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Hi guys

I'm looking at buying a netbook for the missus (Samsung NC10 I would think) and apart from the work she would be doing on it gaming would be great as well.

She loves the old gooduns such as Dungeon Keeper 2 (as mentioned in a list of netbook friendly games in PC Gamer magazine).

A couple of things have occured to me though...

1. How on earth do you get the games on there in the first place without investing in an external drive?

2. How do you run them without having to use an external DVD drive and lug the discs about? That's hardly portable....funnily enough the article doesn't mention that. :(

Some of the games can be bought from Steam etc. but I already own many of the games such as DK2 and Deus Ex so we'd rather not have to buy em all again!

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
 
Put them onto a memory stick or some other portable media.

Install them over the network.

Use an external drive and then a No CD crack (which are legal providing you own the original disk).
 
Thanks for the posts guys that's really helpful!
Thanks for translating The Mad Rapper, that's also really helpful!!! lol

Would creating an ISO work properly if the disc is copy protected?

Installing from a network drive is a good idea but we would still need a CD.

One really old game I'm thinking about is Crusader No Remorse...cracking game but I'm pretty sure it spools video content from the disc even if you select the full install...would the way to get round that be to create a virtual drive so it would spool data from what it thinks is the CD?
 
It should get it from the drive it was installed from, in that case the virtual drive.

Protection is probably less of an issue on the older games you mention as well.
 
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