Redhat.fedora site Not Noobie Friendly!

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Sat Mar 26 05:24:03 UTC 2005


jim lawrence wrote:

>I have noticed that on the main page of the fedora download site there
>are no instructions on how to burn a ISO image or what iso files a
>user would need ot download. Who can I email so that these simple
>instructions can be added to the download page so that the newest of
>noobies  would have to read it; before or at least pop it at them
>stating that if your going to do this then you need theses or if that
>you need this.  etc... I ran a search on fedoraforum.org   187
>possible hits to "burn ISO"   if you try cant boot from install CD its
>around 500 hits. Seems to me that idea of how to burn a ISO image
>isn't getting to the public. People especially noobies just don't
>know. they heard of linux so its the "i'll download it and install it"
>mean while they are lost after they spent 4 hours downloading iso
>images and waste 4 cds because they didn't know any better. WE as a
>COMMUNITY need to get the idea out that "HEY THIS IS HOW YOU DO THIS"
>Before the person who wants to try a different OS gets frustrated and
>gives up.
>  
>
Jim, have you seen http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ ? 





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