On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 19:57 -0500, Shannon Paulo wrote: > Hi, > I have a Mac and want to download a windows version of open office > onto a CD for a friend who has XP (she has dial-up and it would take > forever to download from the site). Is this possible? If so, how do I > do it? I didn't understand the bit torrent thing on the website, if > that has anything to do with this. > > Thanks, > Shannon
If you have OS X, you'll have better facilities to download and prepare the CD for your friend. The first problem will be the matter of exactlcy recording (copying for reference purposes) the md5 value of the OO for XP you wish to download. You can put that notation onto a Sticky note and let it "float" on your desktop until you are done. Start the download and wait until you have all of it. Once you have all of the file you should check to ensure that it matches md5. Don't bother with Help or Apple's version of md5 -- it isn't standard with anything. Instead use md5 included with Darwin and available from the Terminal. For the purpose of example, let's call the file you downloaded XPfile. Within Terminal this is what you do: $ md5 XPfile Of course you press the Enter/Return key and wait till you get a string of numbers. Match those numbers against the original you copied and posted onto the sticky note. If they match exactly, you are ready to burn. If not, download the entire file again, and as many times as necessary -- until md5 matches exactly to the original value. After the exact and accurate copy has been verified by md5, you are ready to burn. Place a blank CD into your drive and place that file onto the CD, OS X will ask if you want to burn and you can burn from within the Finder. That's it, I believe. I switched to Yellow Dog Linux so I don't remember the rest, sorry. Best wishes... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
