Redhat.fedora site Not Noobie Friendly!

[David Curry]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 06:41, jim lawrence wrote:
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>>>>Jim, have you seen http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ ?
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>>Yes, but there is no imstructions for how it is to be done or at least
>>telling people that when you go to burn a iso image your software
>>should have a option of .iso extension .
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>I have to agree that this is a problem.  Even people who have used
>CD burning software before in Windows or a Mac are used to dragging
>files to the burner instead of doing an image write.  And I think
>every software package hides the 'make CD from image file' option
>in a different obscure place.  On a Mac you probably need Toast
>to do it at all.
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>There should at least be a hint that you do not treat the image
>like a file that is copied to a cd in the usual way.
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The only problem I see here is for non-English speakers who struggle 
with understanding material written in English.  The web page referenced 
above has plenty of pointers that people need to download ISO images.  
There is a page section heading in large bolded text that reads, "Write 
files to media" which is followed by

"Note: ISO images are not written to CDs/DVDs the same way as files."
"If you are already running Fedora Core, refer to CD-Rs and CD-RWs for 
instructions on using cdrecord to burn ISOs to CD."

So, prospective fedora users have been advised that burning ISOs is 
different from burning data files to CDs/DVDs.  Adding a sentence that 
refers users of other operating systems to the documentation for CD/DVD 
burning software they normally use might head off a few queries to the 
list about the issue.  But, in my opinion most English speakers posting 
such messages are individuals who are prone to try "winging it" and 
haven't bothered to undertake even the most cursory preparatory research.