Seven on CD?

Is there any way to put Seven on CD instead of DVD? Like on a 4 part CD or something?

 

Do it's for installation on a computer without a dvd drive

 

Another way to go about this is to extract the files from the downloaded Win 7 ISO file and copy them to an external drive, large flash drive, or another partition on your hard drive. You can then run setup.exe straight off your disk.

The problem is you need something like WinRAR or ISObuster to extract the files, and they aren't free, and the time limited demos are function limited, though how limited I don't know.

This method is simple and reliable. Maybe someone here does know of a freeware iso buster you could use.

 

This looks as if the trial version is fully functional -

http://www.undisker.com/

 

I have winrar, but i forgot that i can boot from USB. Is usb reliable enough?

 

What would you be booting from USB? The Win 7 ISO won't boot from USB.

If you have WinRAR I think you should use it to extract the installation files. I'm just not certain you can do the Win 7 install from USB though.

This link describes the method I'm advocating, and I never install any other way now.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928902

 

I don't think it's currently possible to install 7 from spanned CD's but MS may release a multi-CD version as they did for Vista.

You may be able to install it from a 'flash' card, a bootable USB stick or a second partition/drive or a combination thereof.

There is a way to create a CD-sized version of 7 via vLite, this would be a very basic version though, as well as being pretty complicated and requiring a large depth of knowledge regarding file and services dependencies.

Extracting files from an ISO and dropping them into a bootable USB stick is an accepted method of installing Windows, 7 included, and other OS'es, I've done just that 3 times in the last 10 days.

 

Thanks for the help guys. ^_^
I am currently using my sister's laptop(already has 7). It is ripping the files and sending them to the DVD-drive-less computer across the air. Then im going to do a flat install.
I don't need bootable becuase I'm doing an upgrade(not my computer, not my choice)

 

Every file from the CD is on the flash drive, I selected USB Flash Drive Device from the boot menu. The flash drive light, er, flashes, then stops, and the compy is frozen. Any way to do a flat install on XP? I tried but it said i would need vista to upgrade to seven.

 

Rather than booting from flash drive, how about booting Windows and selecting setup.exe from the flash drive?

As I said above I haven't ever tried a flat install from flash, but as others are saying it does work...... Certainly a flat install works from the hard drive.

You cannot upgrade XP to W7, you have to do a clean install. If it works I strongly advise allowing the installer to reformat the target partition.