[Shu-cdromlan] Re: Problem Running Setup from Imaged CD-ROMs

[Tom Edelblute]

I ran into the same problem when trying to make backups of our System
Installation Discs.  The backups will not run at all.  I am guessing
that it is some form of copyright protection but I do not know for sure.

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Tom Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas@anaheim.lib.ca.us

Calvin Fenton wrote:
>
> We image CD-ROMs on a Microtest DiscZerver CD server. Some of the CD images
> refuse to let me run the setup program. (I normally install the programs on
> our file server and put shortcuts to them on the patron PCs in our
> library.) Phone calls to the vendor tech support people end up with the
> stock answer that you can't run setup from the image, yet some CDs install
> just fine from the image. I've had the same experience with both network
> versions and single user CDs (metering software licenses or giving access
> from only one PC).
>
> For example, last year's network version of SIRS Researcher  installed and
> worked just fine from the CD server.  This year's edition refuses to run
> the setup program, producing a "Glbsstub" illegal operation message when I
> click on setup.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions will be most welcome. Thanks.
>
> Calvin Fenton
> Librarian/Archivist
> New York Military Academy
> 78 Academy Avenue
> Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY  12520
> (845) 534-3710, x4235 (voice)
> (845) 534-3837 (fax)