[Fedora-spins] Download instructions on the Spins page

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at 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