Draft document on burning ISO images

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Apr 1 22:24:02 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:14 -0600, Basil Copeland wrote:
> I'm thinking that any Windows users thinking of installing Fedora are
> more adept at burning ISO's that you give them credit for. 


Considering the flood of questions every release, I dont think so.
Providing good detailed documentation is not a question of credit but
guidance. 

>  That said, while I wouldn't suggest any material changes to what
> you've posted for Windows, what about novice Linux users, who might be
> working from a Linux distro, possibly even a live CD?  I.e., how about
> instructions for how to burn ISO's in Linux, especially for situations
> where the CDROM is not automounted, and users may not have menu access
> to a burner utility

Feel free to write such documentation and provide us. We want more
people to work on specific task based documents along with longer length
guides. 


> .  I suppose I qualify as a semi-literate Linux user, and frankly I
> was taken by surprise that FC5 no longer automounts removable media. 

It does for me. What has changed is fixed media mounting. That is
documented in the package notes section in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/PackageNotes

Rahul




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