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Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Jan 19 13:12:43 UTC 2006
On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 12:01, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> Why do people do this?
>
> Anne Wilson:
> > Because it is the first time they have encountered an ISO image.
> > Very many people make the mistake of copying the image to a disk,
> > first time around. Someone has to explain what it is, and how it's
> > handled differently - just once - and the problem disappears.
> > Everybody starts somewhere.
>
> I can understand burning the ISO as a file to a disc, as a mistake.
> But considering the steps that you go though to get your hands on an
> ISO (reading pages, finding the ISO, working out which one you should
> get, etc.), do they really miss something saying burn a disc from
> this image file?
>
I don't think it would necessarily be understood if it did. I'm
assuming that in most cases they are coming from a windows world and
point-and-click burning apps.
> Should the top of the Fedora page listing the ISO files say, "these
> are 'image' files, burn a disc from them, don't unpack the contents
> and copy them to a disc"? Could it be made damn-fool-proof? ;-)
>
Nothing is every fool-proof :-) Maybe a link to some 'First time users'
instructions'? I'm guessing that instructions on where to find 'Burn
an image' or similar on Nero and Roxio would sort out 99% of burning
problems.
> Though, to be fair, I've seen a couple of Windows CD-burning
> applications that give you no option to burn from an image, and a few
> that hide the ability.
>
I haven't seen too many of those apps, but the ones I have seen don't
make the image-burn too obvious.
I'm not trying to be smart-ass, it's just that for many newbies it's a
completely new concept. IMO a lot of duplication of effort in helping
these people could be avoided by making provision for them clearly
available linked from the download page.
Anne
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