Assuming you can access your Mac's DVD drive remotely (1), you can just run setup from it directly or alternatively copy to the entire contents of the office disc onto your netbook and run the setup from the local copy.
-- stuart (1) http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060420105632844 On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Ranulph Glanville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, this isn't about eeZee who was always over the top and deeply > clumsy, but sometimes gave very good help! > > Since Apple won't make a netbook, I bought an asus eee (the 10" one > that it seems hard to find in the UK). It comes with windows xp, and > no dvd player. > > I have to put office on it, much as I hate to do so. Has anyone any > clever way of using a dvd drive not on the eee to install office. I'm > reluctant to go out to buy a usb dvd drive just to install software I > don't like into an OS I absolutely hate. All my other computers are > macs. > > (Why get the eee: because I need to edit a lot and my 17" MBP won't > open on trains. Why windows, not linux: because the shops in > Australia only had the windows edition.) > > Any help gratefully received > > Ranulph > > For those who question whether this is a mac issue: of course it's > not. Or, of course it is: since Apple won't produce this much needed > machine, we have to look elsewhere. So it's a mac matter because > Apple won't give us a mac version. You can't edit text on an iphone. > That's convoluted, isn't it? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
