I have discovered disco. My discovery has nothing to with mirrored balls, Donna Summer or the Bee Gees. Disco is a disc copy utility for the Mac that is still available, but not longer under development. The developers are now offering downloads with a password at no cost.
The problem
I am working on the revision of a Kindle book. My plan was to create a more current version of the existing book using Pages. It turned out that Pages 10 can not be used for this purpose because it has been “simplified” and features I need are no longer available. I need iWork 9. You cannot obtain version 9 from the online store, but Cindy had 9 on a DVD. The problem was getting the install to work on my Mac Pro – no DVD drive.
Disco allows you to create a disc image. So, the solution to the driveless Mac problem was to create a disk image. Load the image on a flash drive and install from the flash drive. The install worked great.
So, if you have been frustrated installing software from DVDs you used on older machines on a Mac Air or Powerbook, try this technique.
