User guide

Chapter Seven – FastCD
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FastCD™
Introduction
Have you ever noticed that no matter how large a refrigerator
you have, you're always running out of room? And, no matter
how many CD-ROM drives you have on the network, there
are never enough to accommmodate users' requirements? In
addition, as convenient as networked CD-ROM drives can be
in providing users direct access to a wealth of information and
a variety of applications, they can often be frustratingly slow
when accessing the data and running the applications.
Microtest offers a solution – FastCD. FastCD allows you to
build virtual images of your CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs on the
server's hard drive. You can run CD-based applications with-
out having the CD loaded in a CD-ROM drive, and access time
and application performance improve measurably. Another
benefit of FastCD is that once you have built your virtual CD
images, you can manage them as you would any other CD-
ROMs on the network.
The following sections of this chapter describe the simple pro-
cess of configuring FastCD, building your virtual CD images,
checking on the progress, or the status, of the image-building
process, and managing your virtual CDs after they have been
built.