Transferring multiple floppy disks to CD (installer)

[aimeeandbeatles]

OK, for some reason my mom wanted me to put her old Microsoft Office floppy disks (installer spread on something like 20 disks) onto a CD. She wants to install it without having to put in all the disks (I dont know why, I already installed OpenOffice for her). So I managed to copy them all to the drive fine and burn them to a disc. However whenever I try to install it always asks to insert the next disk.

So then I looked at setup.inf and theres all sorts of weird stuff like this:

;*** BEGIN **********************************************************
[Source Media Descriptions]
; <disk number>, <disk label>, <file>, <path>
"1","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 1","MSOFF1.CAB","."
"2","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 2","MSOFF2.CAB","..\disk2","dmf"
"3","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 3","MSOFF3.CAB","..\disk3","dmf"
"4","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 4","MSOFF4.CAB","..\disk4","dmf"
"5","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 5","MSOFF5.CAB","..\disk5","dmf"
"6","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 6","MSOFF6.CAB","..\disk6","dmf"
"7","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 7","MSOFF7.CAB","..\disk7","dmf"
"8","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 8","MSOFF8.CAB","..\disk8","dmf"
"9","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 9","MSOFF9.CAB","..\disk9","dmf"
"10","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 10","MSOFF10.CAB","..\disk10","dmf"
"11","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 11","MSOFF11.CAB","..\disk11","dmf"
"12","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 12","MSOFF12.CAB","..\disk12","dmf"
"13","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 13","MSOFF13.CAB","..\disk13","dmf"
"14","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 14","MSOFF14.CAB","..\disk14","dmf"
"15","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 15","MSOFF15.CAB","..\disk15","dmf"
"16","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 16","MSOFF16.CAB","..\disk16","dmf"
"17","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 17","MSOFF17.CAB","..\disk17","dmf"
"18","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 18","MSOFF18.CAB","..\disk18","dmf"
"19","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 19","MSOFF19.CAB","..\disk19","dmf"
"20","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 20","MSOFF20.CAB","..\disk20","dmf"
"21","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 21","MSOFF21.CAB","..\disk21","dmf"
"22","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 22","MSOFF22.CAB","..\disk22","dmf"
"23","Microsoft Office Setup: Disk 23","MSOFF23.CAB","..\disk23","dmf"
[Default File Settings]
"STF_BACKUP" = ""
"STF_COPY" = "YES"
"STF_DATE" = "1994-08-16"
"STF_DECOMPRESS" = "CABINET"
"STF_OVERWRITE" = "OLDER"
"STF_READONLY" = ""
"STF_ROOT" = "YES"
"STF_SETTIME" = "YES"
"STF_TIME" = "0"
"STF_VITAL" = ""

So I tried putting all the different CAB files into disk** folders... no luck. Is there something else I should do? Theres a setup.ini but its just gibberish.

 

[Serutan]

The installer may be hard coded to look on the a: drive. Try renaming the CD drive to a:

If it's also hard coded to look for the separate disk labels, you're S.O.L.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Thanks.

Question: Could I create a virtual disk? I mislocated my CD and I dont really feel like burning off another one. Its on my hard drive.

 

[Serutan]

Yes, there is a DOS prompt command to do that. The DOS Help command should tell you what it is. It will alias a directory path to a drive letter.