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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4973871" data-attributes="member: 41321">I have a small tablet laptop at home that I use when I travel.&nbsp; It has no optical drive.You can share a CD/DVD drive from one machine and read from it on another machine, but this can sometimes be slow depending on your network.&nbsp; What I usually do when I want to install software on this laptop is I copy the files from the CD/DVD either onto my desktop's hard drive and then use the network to copy it to the laptop, or I'll copy it directly from the remotely shared CD/DVD drive.&nbsp; Then once the contents of the CD are copied to the laptop's hard drive I'll install it from there.This is not always easy.&nbsp; Sometimes the installer program won't find what it needs unless it's in the root directory of the drive it's on (like it is when it's directly in a CD/DVD drive).&nbsp; I've gotten around that by either taking the slow route and using the shared CD/DVD drive from another PC directly over the network or by the somewhat roundabout method of sharing a folder on the laptop and mapping it as a network drive so that it appears like its own drive.And sometimes (mostly with computer games) even once you get it installed the program will insist on making sure the disk is in the drive on the computer before it'll run, which is, of course, impossible.&nbsp; The type of information it's looking for cannot be copied.&nbsp; There's no way around this short of the legally questionable act of &quot;cracking&quot; the program so that it won't do this check.So, yes, it's possible, but there are some caveats to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 4973871, member: 41321"] I have a small tablet laptop at home that I use when I travel. It has no optical drive. You can share a CD/DVD drive from one machine and read from it on another machine, but this can sometimes be slow depending on your network. What I usually do when I want to install software on this laptop is I copy the files from the CD/DVD either onto my desktop's hard drive and then use the network to copy it to the laptop, or I'll copy it directly from the remotely shared CD/DVD drive. Then once the contents of the CD are copied to the laptop's hard drive I'll install it from there. This is not always easy. Sometimes the installer program won't find what it needs unless it's in the root directory of the drive it's on (like it is when it's directly in a CD/DVD drive). I've gotten around that by either taking the slow route and using the shared CD/DVD drive from another PC directly over the network or by the somewhat roundabout method of sharing a folder on the laptop and mapping it as a network drive so that it appears like its own drive. And sometimes (mostly with computer games) even once you get it installed the program will insist on making sure the disk is in the drive on the computer before it'll run, which is, of course, impossible. The type of information it's looking for cannot be copied. There's no way around this short of the legally questionable act of "cracking" the program so that it won't do this check. So, yes, it's possible, but there are some caveats to it. [/QUOTE]

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