PoisonJam Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 I have a workstation at my work that I need to put MS Office on to test something in Excel. We have a site license for MS Office and I have downloaded it from our download center but it is in .ISO format. I looked on Wikipedia for this and it seems to be similar to a .zip file...is my understanding correct? Do I just look for a utility that can uncompress the .iso file to a temporary folder and hopefully a setup.exe will be there to run to do the install? I hate to put in an IT ticket for this because I feel like I should know this...can anyone here help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 An ISO is a disk image file - essentially an entire CD-ROM in one file. MagicISO will handle it & extract it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted August 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Perfect, thank you Brian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 that or damon tools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Daisy Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Damon tools might get you something about growing a Barry Gibb hairdo. I think you meant Daemon Tools. Glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foogledricks Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Or you can burn it directly to a CD and install from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoolieMan Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 I'll second Daemon Tools. It is indespesible when dealing with disc images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted August 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Or you can burn it directly to a CD and install from that. Actually I have burned them to a CD already. How do I install from that? I haven't tried it yet but when I gave the discs to my co-worker he tried double-clicking on the ISO file. He said it gave him a read-only error (which doesn't make sense because he should have been installing FROM, not TO the disc). Should it be as simple as double-clicking on that ISO file? It's entirely possible that my co-worker is an idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 No, when you burned it to disc you burned the ISO onto the disc as a data file. An ISO is an image of a CD. So when you use the appropriate program (e.g., Nero Burning ROM), you create a CD from the ISO image file that recreates the original CD. Does that make sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted August 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 Yep, sure does. At this point it's probably easier to just copy the ISO file from the disc to the workstation and then use one of the utilities mentioned above to extract it, but I'll know for next time not to burn the ISO file as a data file. Thanks again everyone. [edit] Yeah, I see the option to create a CD from an .iso file in the burning software I am using (Sonic RecordNow). Thanks, Jay, I didn't notice that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Daisy Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 You can use something like Fireburner or Nero to burn that ISO file to a CD. It's an image of a disk file, so you need software to convert it from that format back to the file format that it formerly held. Something else that you can do is to download ISOburner from Smartprojects. That will allow you to open that file and extract all of the files from it. You can use the free version of the software to do that. Glen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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