NASCAR is it possible......

Is it possible to offload the data files from the CD ROM version and run the SVGA version from a hard drive? The company was too cheap to buy a CD ROM when they got me this Pentium 90. I have a friend with a CD ROM so I do intend on purchasing the game! Vince ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vince Van De Coevering | What I win, I keep | Billy the Kid (Bill & Ted excl adv) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #7 & #28 God wanted a racing team so he took the best..... Alan & Davey: You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's always the same.... No matter how slow you are, somebody always thinks he's a little slower

Have you tried "Hard Disk Installation" from the install program? It is supposed to copy everything to the HD. I know it works for the VGA version. -- +------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | BNR Inc. RTP North Carolina |USmail: 35 Davis Drive RTP, NC 27709 | +------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+

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> >Is it possible to offload the data files from the CD ROM version and > >run the SVGA version from a hard drive? The company was too cheap > >to buy a CD ROM when they got me this Pentium 90. I have a friend > >with a CD ROM so I do intend on purchasing the game! > Have you tried "Hard Disk Installation" from the install program? It >is supposed to copy everything to the HD. I know it works for the VGA >version. > -- >| | BNR Inc. RTP North Carolina |USmail: 35 Davis Drive RTP, NC

Yes I did it on my machine with SVGA. Don't even put the CD in now. WOuld see no reason you couldn't backup and put it on your Pentium. Buy the CD back it up and put in on you machine, it should work fine. IMO Gerald NASCAR SVGA It Will Never Be the Same Again!! `[1;37;47mRainbow V 1.06 for Delphi - Test Drive

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>Subject: NASCAR is it possible...... >Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:57:47 GMT >Is it possible to offload the data files from the CD ROM version and >run the SVGA version from a hard drive? The company was too cheap >to buy a CD ROM when they got me this Pentium 90. I have a friend >with a CD ROM so I do intend on purchasing the game! > Vince

The entire game can be installed to harddisk. +=================================================================+ | Robert Berryhill - Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz| | Plano, Tx or was that Congress? | +=================================================================+

Thanks to all who helped me with this problem. There were numerous solutions offered and most of them seem to be workable. Here is what I did. I had my buddy with the CD ROM drive create a zip file of the entire CD. He then downloaded it to the companies AIX system and I uploaded it to my PC. I unzipped it to a mapped device on our Novell network (more on this in a minute) and ran the installation as described in the instructions. The only problem I faced is the installation routine assumes that the source files are in a directory called NASCAR and it wants to create a directory called NASCAR. I tried to install from the hard drive in a directory named something other than NASCAR and it can't find the files. If you name the source directory NASCAR it tells you that files are already there and wants to delete them prior to the installation. My solution was to create the NASCAR directory on one of my mapped Novell drives. Once this hurdle was overcome the rest of the installation was a snap! Vince ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vince Van De Coevering | What I win, I keep | Billy the Kid (Bill & Ted excl adv) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #7 & #28 God wanted a racing team so he took the best..... Alan & Davey: You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's always the same.... No matter how slow you are, somebody always thinks he's a little slower