Have the installation run on a second computer using a DVD / CD drive over the network?

I turn to you in the hope that maybe someone can help me.

I haven't installed an internal DVD / CD drive in my main computer for some time.

In times of today's online availability, such as film / series streaming in the form of SKY / NETFLIX & Co. Or computer game streaming services in the form of Steam / Battle.net & Co., DVD / CD drives are rarely used these days.

But every now and then you get hit by nostalgia and you get one of the old, dusty DVD / CD games out of the drawer.

Until recently, I used an external DVD / CD drive that can be connected via USB, but it has now completely set all functions.

The first thought that came to me quickly was to use the DVD / CD drive of my notebook over the network for a short time.

But after a few failures regarding a feasible installation, I simply created an image and then mounted it on my main computer.

So I have now successfully installed the old computer game and would have been through with this topic.

But my curiosity in this regard drives me a little.

Therefore, out of a pure thirst for knowledge, I'm simply asking whether it is theoretically possible to implement a DVD / CD drive on one computer as a network DVD / CD drive on another computer, so that one can simply transfer data can go out and start and execute a proper installation of a setup?

So I managed the pure data transfer pretty quickly, but I didn't manage to successfully start a setup or installation file from DVD / CD via the network without any system file error messages.

In today's times I find it difficult to imagine that this shouldn't be possible, but my knowledge of this is apparently very thin.

I would be very grateful if anyone could give me information about this and also describe to me which settings would be necessary for this.

Release the CD / DVD / BR drive in the normal and classic way and integrate it into the other PC using a network drive

BUT there will always be problems here

The best thing is indeed: create and mount the image

I will try to briefly repeat what I have understood; please correct it if i misunderstand; you want your PC to get a CD in a drive via the internet?

Or do you mean a virtual image?

Yes of course you can make virtual drives, there are extra programs for; but hardware has to be switched on / connected by hand if it has to do with electricity or is analogue; for Iso you can of course use usb to boot nowadays; was that the real question?

I assume that you can share it as a network drive.

On the other hand: Have you looked at the prices for such a drive? You can get a new drive, even a DVD burner, brand new for 12 euro.

https://geizhals.de/...at&hloc=de

Is it really worth thinking about, even if there's only the possibility that you might use such a disc again?

I have a reserve drive in the basement. Now I have an old computer again with one in it, and I will give it to the disposal, although it works wonderfully because it simply has no value and I have enough drives in there everywhere.

I can send it to you if you give me the postage. But then I had to wait until any suitable box fell off an order. But you won't really save money on the way.

If it has a burner and works for dvd and cd even i would use it as a spare part in case of emergency but i also sorted out XD because i had a lot of old ones that didn't have a burner; always removed the parts when something was broken…

Me too. But as I said, now all friends and computers are taken care of. I don't want to put more than one drive in my basement in the unlikely event that I need another drive for a computer that doesn't already have one.

Yeah know what you mean

No, in my mind game I don't go online at all.

So no internet scenario at all in my question!

And it's also not about mounting images or creating them or virtual images!

The creation of an image was my alternative solution to it, which was also successfully completed!

The only thing I can do is to successfully start a setup or installation file from DVD / CD via network (LAN) without any system file error messages.

Quasi from computer01 (with drive) to computer02 (without drive) via the local network.

. And as I said… A mind game… So whether this is theoretically possible and HOW!

The thing is, if you don't want to litter your home, you should (with the exception of memorabilia and a few well-founded exceptions) follow the principle that you throw away everything that you haven't used for 5 years. The one item that you really need again at some point, you buy a new one.

But if the new drive costs only 12 euro, then there's no need to think twice about storing and storing it.

Nice of you for offering me your drive, but I still have plenty of internal drives lying around!

… And I created an IMAGE with my notbook faster than temporarily installing an internal drive in my main computer.

I just wanted to know out of curiosity whether it is possible to successfully start a setup or installation file from DVD / CD via network (LAN) without any system file error messages.

Quasi from computer01 (with drive) to computer02 (without drive) via the local network.

Simply transporting data is not a problem, but as soon as you start the respective setup file, system file error messages are hailed.

And I created an IMAGE via my notbook faster than temporarily installing an internal drive in my main computer.

Why temporarily? Leave it in, don't eat bread!

It goes without saying, but booting would be a bit complicated; you only need to set up a home network via crossover cable…

. OK…

… That has nothing to do with my mind game in my question, but I'm happy to write you why I PERSONALLY no longer have a DVD / CD drive / burner in my main computer!

Firstly, from the introduction to my question!

"At the time of today's online availability, such as film / series streaming in the form of SKY / NETFLIX & Co. Or computer game streaming services in the form of Steam / Battle.net & Co., DVD / CD drives are rarely used these days."

… But that can be interpreted as a personal matter of taste!

Let everyone make up for themselves.

But at some point, after almost 3 years of not using my DVD / CD drive / burner, I decided to expand it and make space for other components that were useful for me!

Such as an additional radiator and liquid tank!

… That is also different for everyone personally!

And if I were to add an internal drive now, WITH ME, it would only be possible to the side!

Therefore temporarily, because at least I don't want to constantly look at a drive attached to the side of my case! XD

And my question wasn't whether a drive BASICALLY makes sense in a gaming PC these days or not.

That is also up to you… It's a matter of taste!

Everyone likes to do what they want.

I just wanted to know, AS A GAME, whether it is possible to successfully start a setup or installation file from DVD / CD via network (LAN) without receiving any system file error messages.

° ^

Okay, I have to admit that it is beyond my intellectual horizon for people to worry about the look of their PC case. Although I should know better, after all, the market is full of RGB lights, RGB RAM bars and all that nonsense.

Liquid cooling would also be something that I would never incorporate, because it would only help with significant overclocking, and I don't believe in overclocking, on the one hand because you pay the money for such bells and whistles that you pay for overclocking (instead of a better CPU ) thinks to save and, on the other hand, because today's CPUs tend to deactivate their sophisticated energy-saving mechanisms to a large extent when they are overclocked. The power requirement increases linearly with the clock frequency and even in the square of the voltage (which you then have to pull up). The automatically switched off power-saving mechanisms come on top as an additional consumption driver. So you consume more electricity without end (which again costs money) and in summer you get plenty of additional heat blown into the room for a bit more performance.

It's nothing to me. That's why I didn't have it on my screen that you're a fan of that. Of course, water cooling has a coolness factor - also in a figurative sense. But for me, the only thing that counts with PCs is the performance that is on the screen and the rest of the smooth running.

Thanks for your input!

Yes, the pure data transfer works so smoothly, i.e. Copying files from the notebook's drive via my local network to my network drive that I have set up on my main computer!

That went pretty quickly, but as soon as I try to run the setup or installation file, I get system file error messages.

And after a short back and forth I couldn't get this error problem under control.

That's why I quickly created the image on my notebook and simply copied it over to my main computer.

But, for whatever reason, I have the feeling that it should somehow work or be adjustable anyway.

As I said… Ne pure knowledge game from me… What would you have to configure for it?

As I said!

It's up to you… It's a matter of taste!

Everyone likes to do what they want.

Personally, I have opted for external and internal liquid-cooled passive systems since 2006 … And that's it!

So no fans, therefore smooth running!

Just a single pump that is externally attached to a very large passive copper heat sink and consumes just as much power as a single fan.

No overclocking, so the whole thing is really low-power.

… Not illuminated by the way! Just by the way!

… And my case is from 2006 too, so anything but cool. XD

And since all the temperature sensors in and on my computer show between 21 ° C - 34 ° C distributed over the year, depending on whether it is deep winter or midsummer outside and accordingly it is very very cold or very very warm in my room… XD

… So I don't need to hide in terms of heat development either. ^^

But enough about this painful subject!

Everyone can really do what they want!

You can also immerse your computer completely in methoxynonafluorobutane.

… But to debate which system configuration would be the most elegant or not, that's actually not my point at all! XD

I don't care… I don't criticize it… Nobody should criticize either. POINT

My question, as far as I can still remember it, was originally a different one! XD

Thanks for your input!

Yes, the pure data transfer works so smoothly, i.e. Copying files from the notebook's drive via my local network to my network drive that I have set up on my main computer!

That went pretty quickly, but as soon as I try to run the setup or installation file, I get system file error messages.

And after a short back and forth I couldn't get this error problem under control.

That's why I quickly created the image on my notebook and simply copied it over to my main computer.

But, for whatever reason, I have the feeling that it should somehow work or be adjustable anyway.

As I said… A pure knowledge game from me… What would you have to configure for it?

There's now the question of which error messages you got exactly. But I'm not crack at it.

I've tried several computer game DVDs / CDs.

And what all error messages when executing the respective setup or installation file have in common is that system files that are "supposedly" certain, such as a dll file, are not found on the respective computer game DVD / CD itself, even though they are are clearly there.

As if he lost the path in between.

Important "installation files" are simply not found on the computer game DVD / CD.

… And that is then cut out to me as terse system file error messages.

For example with the "Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption" DVD the message appears that the "ISSetup.dll" could not be found, although it is clearly there!

On the notebook itself, the installation works without any problems.

Only as soon as I access my notebook DVD / CD drive from my main computer via the network (LAN) and want to install the game from there, there are system file error messages of various kinds.

Depending on the game, he is always missing a different file.

That sounds more like the operating system has a problem with it, I know these dll errors and they are almost always just annoying… I can't think of a real solution except to use packed iso files…

I just quickly created the image on my notebook and simply copied it over to my main computer… Done.

So in itself I'm not dependent on a solution now, because in the future I will just create images and point.

But it makes me a little curious whether it might not have been possible to install it via the local network.

There shouldn't be a dll error with it… But what exactly is clogging the line now, I can't tell you, is not so that you always need a solution, I also like to think of ideas that would be somehow possible, but I don't absolutely need.

Just a gimmick. ^^

If I should come across a solution by chance, I'll be happy to write it down here.

Oh no issue, I also have such little things that I ned get fixed XD the most annoying is still my graphics driver time out but no matter xD

Pumps are also not completely silent, and large, slow-turning fans are practically inaudible. So I have great doubts that you will have advantages over a really good fan-cooled cooler with a CPU that is not overclocked. You simply don't need water cooling for systems that are not overclocked. I'm still convinced that a portion of hobby plays a role for you. :-p