1:31 p.m.
Hi All,
I'm helping out at POSSE Worcester this week and one of the things
that people asked when looking through the spins download pages was
"How do I make this into a live image on a USB stick?" so I looked
around the site and noticed that the only spot that seems to mention
what do do with a .iso once its downloaded is a couple of paragraphs
in the about page.
As a spin might be the first place that people try Fedora as its
unobtrusive it might be worthwhile compressing the 2 paragraphs on the
about page (one for optical and one for USB media) into a single
paragraph with some links on the actual download page so they don't
have to hunt for it and to make it as easy as possible for people to
be able to get started.
Peter
5:55 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:31:35PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi All,
I'm helping out at POSSE Worcester this week and one of the things
that people asked when looking through the spins download pages was
"How do I make this into a live image on a USB stick?" so I looked
around the site and noticed that the only spot that seems to mention
what do do with a .iso once its downloaded is a couple of paragraphs
in the about page.
As a spin might be the first place that people try Fedora as its
unobtrusive it might be worthwhile compressing the 2 paragraphs on the
about page (one for optical and one for USB media) into a single
paragraph with some links on the actual download page so they don't
have to hunt for it and to make it as easy as possible for people to
be able to get started.
We have the following page on creating and making Live USB sticks:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
Is it helpful to link to that page? When I google "fedora usb" (with
or without "live") that's the #1 hit.
--
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10:07 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:31:35PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm helping out at POSSE Worcester this week and one of the things
> that people asked when looking through the spins download pages was
> "How do I make this into a live image on a USB stick?" so I looked
> around the site and noticed that the only spot that seems to mention
> what do do with a .iso once its downloaded is a couple of paragraphs
> in the about page.
>
> As a spin might be the first place that people try Fedora as its
> unobtrusive it might be worthwhile compressing the 2 paragraphs on the
> about page (one for optical and one for USB media) into a single
> paragraph with some links on the actual download page so they don't
> have to hunt for it and to make it as easy as possible for people to
> be able to get started.
We have the following page on creating and making Live USB sticks:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
Is it helpful to link to that page? When I google "fedora usb" (with
or without "live") that's the #1 hit.
Yes, I found that but its not linked from the download pages of the
spins. You need to go somewhere else like the about page to actually
find that link. If you have to then google "fedora usb" IMO we're
doing something wrong, as soon as they have to go somewhere else we've
lost them.
Peter
8:18 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 04:07:25AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Paul W. Frields
<stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:31:35PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm helping out at POSSE Worcester this week and one of the things
>> that people asked when looking through the spins download pages was
>> "How do I make this into a live image on a USB stick?" so I looked
>> around the site and noticed that the only spot that seems to mention
>> what do do with a .iso once its downloaded is a couple of paragraphs
>> in the about page.
>>
>> As a spin might be the first place that people try Fedora as its
>> unobtrusive it might be worthwhile compressing the 2 paragraphs on the
>> about page (one for optical and one for USB media) into a single
>> paragraph with some links on the actual download page so they don't
>> have to hunt for it and to make it as easy as possible for people to
>> be able to get started.
>
> We have the following page on creating and making Live USB sticks:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
>
> Is it helpful to link to that page? When I google "fedora usb" (with
> or without "live") that's the #1 hit.
Yes, I found that but its not linked from the download pages of the
spins. You need to go somewhere else like the about page to actually
find that link. If you have to then google "fedora usb" IMO we're
doing something wrong, as soon as they have to go somewhere else we've
lost them.
There's a "How do I use this?" link that appears right under the big
download button. Right now, it links to a place in the Installation
Guide that really isn't helpful.
It *looks* like this content is the same for all spins -- at least the
few that I clicked through to check. Would you agree that we should
link that to the USB page, or perhaps a general "How to use downloaded
ISO files" page that lets users pick from "Make a Live disc" and
"Make
a Live USB"?
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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11:28 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:06:08AM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:18:01 +0200, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> page that lets users pick from "Make a Live disc" and "Make a Live
USB"?
Does the majority (95%) of users still make discs? IMO they don't.
And any additional information and user decision is very expensive.
I don't know on what facts you're basing that. But I agree about the
decision thing. We could just send people to the Live USB page, and
provide a route there for them to go elsewhere if needed. Live USB
provides a far better user experience anyway, between persistent
storage and faster I/O.
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
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