3.5" floppies to cd

[LARRYB]

I have some programs that are on 3.5" floppies. I want to install them on a system that only has a CD player.

I do have a older system that has both 3.5" drive and cd drive. I know that I can copy each disk to cd but during the installation process they will be asking to insert disk #2, into the 3.5" drive etc.

Is there a utility program (shareware hopefully) that will allow me to install the programs from the CD just like from the floppies???

Thanks for your help in advance.

Larry

[reepa]

If you're on Windows, you can use this to emulate a floppy drive:
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html
You'll need to create disk images of the floppies with the computer that has a floppy drive. You can then put the disk images on a cd.

[[P]ako]

The trick I'd used in the past was to create a folder per program, named after the program, and then inside of said folder I'd create as many folders as disks had the program, which would be named as follow: disk1, disk2, disk3 and so on. It worked like a charm.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

LARRYB, maybe you can do it like that:

1. Copy each Floppy to a separate CD, but don't actually burn those CD's, just save the Image File (.ISO, .NRG, etc.).
2. Burn all those image files to one single Data CD (disc1.iso, disc2.iso, disc3.iso and so on)
3. Then use a virtual CD-ROM drive, e.g. Daemon Tools or CloneCD Drive, to mount the image files from the CD.
4. Each mounted image should behave exactly like the original Floppy
5. If the installer ask for the next Floppy, just unmount the current Image file and mount the next Image file.


Possible problems:

1. Installer might expect the Floppy in A: and fail otherwise
2. Installer might try to write to the Floppy for some reason

Both will fail with my idea...

[CWR03]

I've used [P]ako's method many times - as long as the folder on the CD matches the disk label of the original floppy, it should install from the CD without you ever seeing the "Insert Disk x" prompt.