How to load office 2003 on my new netbook

[newmarket2]

I have Office 2003 on my current laptop. I just purchased a netbook and want to move office there. But, Office came on a CD and I don't have a reader on my Asus and do NOT want to buy an external one just for this.

How can I do this?

[beats]

Copy the Office files over via LAN?

[newmarket2]

Copy the Office files over via LAN?

Have you done this? I've always thought that this wouldn't work for any app.

[beats]

Yes, dozens of times. Just put the Office cdrom in a system with a drive, share it, and copy the files over to the netbook. Then start Office setup as usual.

[newmarket2]

OK then. I'll give it a try. I've also heard about creating an .iso file from the disk and using that.

You know about that approach? Doesn't sound necessary if your way works, but several people have done it this way....

with MS Office specifically

[beats]

Creating an ISO works too, but it's an unneeded extra step.

[newmarket2]

Here's how I finally did it: I put the CD into a drive on a computer on my network. I made the optical drive sharable.

From my new netbook, I used the network to get to the drive and ran setup.exe. It was like the drive was in the netbook.

This was a lot faster than copying all the files from the disk to other media. Of course, you need a network with a pc with a drive.

Thanks for the help!