We have been told that in order to change the Express Modem software, so
the Installer does not shut it down, will take a lot of work and there are
no current plans to do this. We have submitted this as an enhancement
request.
We came up with two similar workarounds that still require downloading the
software, then doing the install, but at least they do not require any
additional equipment:
* Depending on the amount of software that must be downloaded and the
amount of RAM installed on your computer, you could create a RAM disk to
copy the software into, disconnect and quit ARA, then run the
installation. The RAM disk still appears if you then restart with the
Shift key down to disable extensions. This will increase the amount of
RAM available for the Installer to run in. We successfully downloaded
Microsoft Mail and installed it using a RAM disk on a computer with 4MB
of RAM.
* The RAM disk method isn't likely to work with a huge program like Word or
Excel. We used disk partition software that comes with Norton Utilities.
We created a couple of partitions on our hard drive and copied the
software into them. The nice thing about these kind of partitions is
they can be created and deleted on the fly. Although we didn't perform
extensive testing, this method also appeared to work.