Les Mikesell wrote:
The only problem I see here is for non-English speakers who struggle with understanding material written in English. The web page referenced above has plenty of pointers that people need to download ISO images. There is a page section heading in large bolded text that reads, "Write files to media" which is followed byOn Sat, 2005-03-26 at 06:41, jim lawrence wrote:
Yes, but there is no imstructions for how it is to be done or at leastJim, have you seen http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ ?
telling people that when you go to burn a iso image your software
should have a option of .iso extension .
I have to agree that this is a problem. Even people who have used CD burning software before in Windows or a Mac are used to dragging files to the burner instead of doing an image write. And I think every software package hides the 'make CD from image file' option in a different obscure place. On a Mac you probably need Toast to do it at all.
There should at least be a hint that you do not treat the image like a file that is copied to a cd in the usual way.
"Note: ISO images are not written to CDs/DVDs the same way as files."
"If you are already running Fedora Core, refer to CD-Rs and CD-RWs for instructions on using cdrecord to burn ISOs to CD."
So, prospective fedora users have been advised that burning ISOs is different from burning data files to CDs/DVDs. Adding a sentence that refers users of other operating systems to the documentation for CD/DVD burning software they normally use might head off a few queries to the list about the issue. But, in my opinion most English speakers posting such messages are individuals who are prone to try "winging it" and haven't bothered to undertake even the most cursory preparatory research.
