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by eguhlin

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Our company has a huge software library that consists of an unruly amount of physical media. I am trying to get to a point where our desktop technicians can install the software without having to check out the physical media. Does anyone know of a temporary solution to this? I say temporary because we have a product that will do software delivery, but all of the software must be packaged first. Our system at the moment is very arcane. I feel like a librarian checking out all of tis software. Is there a way to use ISO images or something like that until we get all of the software packaged? Can someone please help guide me in the right direction?

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by older mycroft

Since you'll have to generate ISO images then package the software anyway later.

Better to spend the enormity of time involved making ISOs to do the actual packaging process, don't you think?

by eguhlin

Since everything has to be made into an ISO to package it anyway, how is that doubling the load? I would use the same ISO's for the packaging, I would not create ISO's a second time. The problem is, I need a way to avert all of the time it takes to check out the software to the techs and then check it back in. As you know, it will take quite some time to package all of this software and nobody here knows anything about packaging. The brunt of learning everything falls on me. Not only that I am in the middle of rolling out Mcafee to over 4000 users as well as trying to learn infrastructure and operations management software. My plate is completely full, that is why I am looking for a way to get rid of the burden of being a librarian.

by eguhlin

I misread your reply earlier. I see what you are referring to now. What you say makes sense, the only problem is that I have to learn how to package software first. That is why I am looking for a "temporary" solution. Nobody here knows packaging. Any ideas?

by rahouseholder

With some software, it is possible to copy the contents of the CD to a network share and run the installation from there. Your techs would just need to map the drive first then run the installation.

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