Draft document on burning ISO images

[Sam Folk-Williams]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:56:00PM +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:33 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BurningDiscs
> > > 
> > > This would be a very important document for non technical users
> > > attempting to start using Fedora. More content and editorial reviews
> > > would be helpful from the lurkers in this list.
> > 

Sorry to chime in late on this thread -- I think this is a very important
document and I'd like to link it up with the Draft System Planning Guide;

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/SystemPlanningGuide

As somehow who supports Linux professionally,  I can not tell you how many people I
have had to talk to about the proper way to burn an image. This is something
completely non-obvious to most users and a massive cause of frustration -- even
though we'd like to think it's trivial.

Sam

> > I think we'd do better to encourage them not to use the ISO images at
> > all; instead to do network installation where possible. You get to skip
> > the whole 'optical media are unreliable as hell and you need to do the
> > media check and still expect random failures' bit that way.
> 
> There definitely seems to be a lot of posts about this (lots of cheap
> and nasty blanks ?), and the Media Check seems to confuse as much as it
> helps.
> 
> I think that boot disc + network installation depends on having a good
> connection, though. Although many people in the UK have something
> labelled as "broadband", the standard plans that I've seen only have a
> 2Gb a month download limit before additional charges kick in, or less
> than 1Mbit bandwidth. Which is OK for updates, but make network installs
> less comfortable. I don't know enough about the situation in other
> countries to sensible comment there.
> 
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