Draft document on burning ISO images

[Stuart Ellis]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:33 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BurningDiscs
> > 
> > This would be a very important document for non technical users
> > attempting to start using Fedora. More content and editorial reviews
> > would be helpful from the lurkers in this list.
> 
> I think we'd do better to encourage them not to use the ISO images at
> all; instead to do network installation where possible. You get to skip
> the whole 'optical media are unreliable as hell and you need to do the
> media check and still expect random failures' bit that way.

There definitely seems to be a lot of posts about this (lots of cheap
and nasty blanks ?), and the Media Check seems to confuse as much as it
helps.

I think that boot disc + network installation depends on having a good
connection, though. Although many people in the UK have something
labelled as "broadband", the standard plans that I've seen only have a
2Gb a month download limit before additional charges kick in, or less
than 1Mbit bandwidth. Which is OK for updates, but make network installs
less comfortable. I don't know enough about the situation in other
countries to sensible comment there.

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Stuart Ellis

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