- there are some very small (although not as small as a pendrive) external USB hard-drives but I think what you really want is to do a small fix on a user computer and not have to turn it off, modify BIOS, re-boot, work, modify BIOS, re-boot...
- have you tried the command line compiler of Delphi? - note that, if you use third-party controls, some of them also use the registry - for the VMWare solution, I'd try Win 98 SE regards, Carlos Quoting Workshop Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What would work, if your drive is big enough, to create a virtual machine > (using VMWare, for example) and install Delphi within this virtual machine. > Then with the VMWare player you could just put this on your thumb drive and > thus play this virtual machine on any other system. Since VMWare also has > Linux-based players, you could also play the same VM on a Linux system! > > Downside is of course that a simple VM will already eat up several gigs of > disk space. It's doable if your drive can hold 4 GB or more, otherwise it's > just too much. I have done this in the past already, though. It works > suprisingly well. Then again, using multiple VM's is also useful as test > environments for your Delphi applications. :-) > -- > With kind regards, > > \/\//\ Wim, > W.A. ten Brink > > On 9/17/07, Jeremy Grand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'd guess it would work, but if you try the drive in a different computer >> it might well fail. Registry settings, etc. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* advanced_delphi@yahoogroups.com [mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Victor Fraenckel >> *Sent:* Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:49 PM >> *To:* Delphi Advanced >> *Subject:* [advanced_delphi] Delphi on a Thumb drive >> >> Is it possible to install and run Delphi 7 on a removable media like a >> thumb drive? I suspect this cannot be done, but it would be kind of neat >> to do it. >> >> Any enlightenment will be appreciated. >> >> Vic >> -- >> >> *__________________________________________________________* >> >> *Victor Fraenckel >> KC2GUI >> victorf ATSIGN windreader DOT com** >> * >> >
