21st March 2017, 7:23
(20th March 2017, 15:36)rocky7x Wrote: Using the original cd (dvd) is absolutely ok - the same approach works with it as well, just instead of mounting the iso, you insert the disc into the drive
Ah, ok, thanks. I've still not had time to actually give this a go yet, although i still think about it as i do "other stuff". I realised that there's a [possibly weird, possibly ok] peripheral question i also should ask about this whole concept of running Office in Wine.
Presumably / obviously, my Office 2010 suite simply cannot receive any of the historic nor prospective MS security patches this way, so i'd be running an unpatched 7+ yr old software, which doesn't sound very safe. Conversely, it'd be running in the Linux not Windows infrastructure, so presumably no putative MS-focused malware [eg, if i somehow picked up an infected docx or xlsx file etc] could actually do any damage, so i need not worry?
Would you lean towards the 2nd not 1st risk interpretation?