Solution: Make you hard drive a removable hard drive, Then you can take it
to any computer you desire.  No performance degradation since you are only
using a pass-through cable.  It also fit perfectly within the boundary of
software licensing agreement.  I use it all the time between my family of
computers at home and at work.

Cost: About $20 per removable hard drive kit. You need one for each computer
you are going to move around to.

Hope this helps.
    Glenn wrote in message <6oifif$6...@forums.borland.com>...
    Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to move Delphi from 1
computer to another without having to reload all of the 3rdparty tools.

    I have loaded Delphi on the new system and have it on the network.  The
path to my 3rdparty tools use to be e:\3rdparty and now its c:\3rdparty

    Thanks in advance,

    Glenn Hancock
    ghanc...@softek-software.com

Hi,

That is no solution at all.

If you move a complete Delphi installation to a different computer (or
different installation of Windows on the same computer) you will have
to reinstall. You can of course reinstall over the files on the
removable disk and keep only one copy but if you install packages you
will have to repeat the installation on each computer since that
information is in the registry which will _not_ move together with
your removable media.

I used to have that hassle with Win3.x, 95 and NT on the same
machine...

Ciao, MM
--
Marian Maier, Gamma Soft, Hainstra?e 8, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +49 228 624013 Fax: +49 228 624031
http://www.gammasoft.de/maier
"Was schiefgehen kann geht schief"

The registry changes only regards to the hardware devices.  OS probably will
assign the COM ports to other memory addresses.  However, the Delphi
registry setting will not change at all.  It is still at the same directory
where it was before and carry the same registry settings.  I know this is
not a smart solution, but it works for me.  However, I do understand your
concern.  There is a level of incompatibility here.  That is why I build my
PCs using similar components like same motherboards, same hard drives, etc.;
basically making twin PCs.

I understand perfectly.  I spent entire two days, day and night, trying to
install DOS, WIN31, 95, NT, and BeOS on the same machine using Commander
Systems.  Never got it to work.  Now I just use one hard drive per OS.
Clean operation, no headaches.  Plus it is fun, too.  You just swap out the
hard disk and put in another one, now you got a UNIX box, swap again, you
got a NT box :-)

Check out your home page and will try out your programs soon :-).  What does
the above phrase mean in English?

Thanks,

Allen.

Hi,

You failed to state in your posting, that you are booting from the
removable drive. In that case you are right, but as you pointed out,
have to make absolutely sure that your machines use identical
hardware. Unfortunately this is very seldom the case in practice.

All machine parks owned by developers that I know, have grown over
time. There are older machines running older OSes and newer machines
running newer ones. There is the odd special piece of hardware
naturally installed on only one machine, like Modems, Scanners et.
al., and the setup changes daily as things are tried out, stuff is
installed and removed. The more diverse the machines you test your
software on are, the better. So forcing identical hardware just to be
able to move around an installation of a development tool ist
contra-productive.

With Windows there just is no simple way to carry the "personality"
(defined to include configuration of desktop and applications) of a
machine around and to plug it into different boxes.

If you have Delphi on a removable media, say a ZIP-cartridge, without
the host OS, and the host OS has never had Delphi installed under the
Drive Letter and Path the installation on your cartridge will be
visible to the host OS, you will be disappointed. Just try to run
Delphi from the RUNIMAGE Directory on the CD on a non-Delphi machine
to see the effect.

With D3 there is the additional concern of runtime-packages that live
in the Windows-Directory-Tree and would be missing...

Ciao, MM
--
Marian Maier, Gamma Soft, Hainstra?e 8, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +49 228 624013 Fax: +49 228 624031
http://www.gammasoft.de/maier
"Was schiefgehen kann geht schief"