VirtualBox is a great idea for this kind of need. One question though - won't you have to activate the copy of Windows, with a separate licence, or else keep reinstalling every 30 days?
Andre van Zuydam wrote: > Hi > > If you install to a USB drive you would proably have to extract the > delphi particular registries and run them on the computer you wish to > work on. Keeping in mind that you would need to make sure that the USB > drive has always the same drive letter. The other consideration would > be that each computer would need to have the Borland shared information > and BDE installed for the Delphi to work properly if you need to work on > databases. > > My recommendation is to download a virtual machine called VirtualBox and > create a virtual computer, install your development environment there > and then run the image from your USB drive. In this manner you are > walking around with a fully configured computer. I have done this > successfully when I need a transportable Delphi 7. You would obviously > need virtual box installed on the client computer but this will be a > quick effortless install which you can in the end remove quite easily. > > Yours sincerely > > Andre van Zuydam > > PAV-K2RFP wrote: > >> I have my original Delphi-3 Installation CD and I >> would like to install it on a portable USB drive >> so I can take it from computer to computer. The >> problem is the installation writes stuff to the >> system registry of the computer doing the installation. >> There are references to the drive letter of the USB >> drive when connected to the original installation >> computer but on another computer they won't be present >> in its registry. Is there a way around this problem, >> or what effect will this have if I try to use Delphi >> on the USB drive with another computer? >> >> >> __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
