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Install DP8 on a NO Optical Drive / DVD / Superdrive laptop

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:38 pm
by Allen Wrench
I recently installed DP8 on my new Macbook Air. At first I was a bit confused and found some posts that suggested buying a USB drive to install the program.

Here's what I did...

Using another computer that had and optical drive, I made a Disc Image of the DP8 install disk, using the standard OS X Disk Utility. I imported the Disk Image via a thumbdrive to my MacBook Air and mounted the Disc Image with Toast.

The program installed and authorized with no problem, as if there was an Optical Drive in my Macbook Air

Re: Install DP8 on a NO Optical Drive / DVD / Superdrive lap

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:07 pm
by FutureLegends
Maybe because you have to register online there's no use for DP8 to look for a physical DVD...

Re: Install DP8 on a NO Optical Drive / DVD / Superdrive lap

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:29 pm
by mikehalloran
Allen Wrench wrote:I recently installed DP8 on my new Macbook Air. At first I was a bit confused and found some posts that suggested buying a USB drive to install the program.

Here's what I did...

Using another computer that had and optical drive, I made a Disc Image of the DP8 install disk, using the standard OS X Disk Utility. I imported the Disk Image via a thumbdrive to my MacBook Air and mounted the Disc Image with Toast.

The program installed and authorized with no problem, as if there was an Optical Drive in my Macbook Air
Except that you don't need the disk to authorize DP 8...

Now, if that works with DP 7.24, that would be interesting.