installing world of warcraft on a mac with no cd rom drive?

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RobertMacUser

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Hi,
my powerbook's cd rom drive is broken, but i want to install world of warcraft.
i made ISO's of the 4 cd's using my pc and transferred them to the mac using a wireless network (slowww).

now i am having trouble getting them installed. i mounted each iso and then began the install on the first disk. but once the first disk is one, the app says to 'insert the disk called World of Warcraft Disk 2". disk too is already mounted. note that the mounts are each called WoWDisk1 (1-4) and the volumes on each disk are called World Of Warcraft Disk 1 (1-4). any help?
thanks!
 
Somewhere on the internet (I got it on fileplanet but ti looks like it's gone now) you can download the beta-client, and then just install that, or the trial client.

I got it on fileplanet but it's gone. I needed it when my CDs broke in the move and blizzard wanted 40 bucks to replace them.
 
I'm not sure which application your using, but I find mounting the image to the same virtual drive works, if you have them mounted to sepereate virtual drives it doesnt see the other "CD's".

So basically mount Image 1 to virtual Drive 1 > Begin install > when asked to insert dist 2 > Mount Image 2 to virtual Drive 1. GG?
 
Or if all else fails buy an external drive and then take it back the next day and get your money back.
 
AcidBurn said:
Or if all else fails buy an external drive and then take it back the next day and get your money back.
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Nothing like cheating the system :p
 
Alternativly you could copy the contents of each disc to a folder and then just click the install.exe. You wont have to touch it for the whole install. This is what i have done after gettign sick of swapping discs. After you copy all the files you should endup with 4 mpq files , an installer.exe, and a directx folder.
 
You can make your own DVD install disk from your CD's. make a Folder for your Wow Files. Then copy the first disk to it, then just copy the large data file from each CD into that folder, then burn the folder to a DVD (without the folder, just the files). Make an image from that then tranfer that over to your other computer, mount the image and install.
 
If you have them all mounted on separate virtual drives, try removing cd 1 after it asks for cd 2 and then mount cd 2 in its place. Sometimes that gives me problems but I can usually get it working after fiddling around with it.
 
Do you have access to another Mac?

You can enable disk target mode on the Powerbook so it acts like a external HD (connect via FW or USB2 to the other Mac).

On the other Mac install WoW. Then drag the contents over to the Powerbook's Application folder. It should take less than 5 minutes to transfer over.

You could enable target disk mode while connected to a Windows machine but I don't think Windows can read the Mac's journal file system, at least not without hack. Even then you'll have to make disc images of each CD since you can't just transfer WoW installed files from Windows to MacOSX. The game won't work.
 
Can't you just run the launcher and download the entire game from WoW servers? I don't play WoW, but almost every other MMOs does this now.
 
moralpanic said:
Can't you just run the launcher and download the entire game from WoW servers? I don't play WoW, but almost every other MMOs does this now.
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Good idea. I believe he can download the launcher that was distributed when Fileplanet was giving out 1 week free of gameplay.
 
UnMinded said:
Nothing like cheating the system :p
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speaking of cheating, I was at home depot getting some stuff to put in a new kitchen faucet and I needed some pipe cutters, they home depot employee goes "just buy this one and return in when you're done" my brother and I had to laugh but he was dead serious :D
 
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