Thanks, Ronni. The installer runs fine to completion but falls over when doing the serial number bit. I suspect from what you have said that because of no Rosetta it can not talk to my earlier discs. Hmmm, now that IS a dilemma! Severin
On 25/02/2012, at 4:14 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > On 25/02/2012, at 3:27 PM, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am doing an install of Office 2008 on a fresh Lion. I have Office 2008 >> existing installed on another disk. My install DVD is an update as are my >> Office 2004 and Office X disks tracking back to an Office 98 original. The >> installer installs but will not recognise any of these disks as valid >> candidates, though it says disks are OK rather than installed files. How do >> I get around this? > > Hi Severin, > > The Office 2008 disc uses PPC code in its installer which requires Rosetta > (which is not available in Lion). > > This might help you find a solution. > > <http://www.officeformachelp.com/2011/07/install-office-2008-on-lion/> > > <http://www.office.mvps.org/install/office2008_lion.html> > > "If you do a fresh install of Lion or need to re-install Microsoft Office > 2008 at a future time, users that have an original DVD version 12.0.0 of > Microsoft Office 2008 can install on Lion, but will need to do an additional > step after installing from the DVD. Until this step is complete, Office 2008 > cannot see any future updates. If you have Office 2008 v12.1.0 or later there > are no special instructions." > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad >> Severin Crisp >> ________________________________________________________ >> Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP >> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. >> Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) >> email mailto:[email protected] >> ________________________________________________________ >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> ________________________________________________________ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:[email protected] ________________________________________________________ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
