Boot cd

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 19 15:02:48 UTC 2006


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?
> 
> 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?  ;-)

One thing that would help would be not to use the word "unpack" in
reference to an ISO.

> 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 that, but I have limited exposure to software to
burn CDs at all.



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