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[Anne Wilson]

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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