On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 12:01, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> Why do people do this? > > Anne Wilson: > > Because it is the first time they have encountered an ISO image. > > Very many people make the mistake of copying the image to a disk, > > first time around. Someone has to explain what it is, and how it's > > handled differently - just once - and the problem disappears. > > Everybody starts somewhere. > > I can understand burning the ISO as a file to a disc, as a mistake. > But considering the steps that you go though to get your hands on an > ISO (reading pages, finding the ISO, working out which one you should > get, etc.), do they really miss something saying burn a disc from > this image file? > I don't think it would necessarily be understood if it did. I'm assuming that in most cases they are coming from a windows world and point-and-click burning apps. > Should the top of the Fedora page listing the ISO files say, "these > are 'image' files, burn a disc from them, don't unpack the contents > and copy them to a disc"? Could it be made damn-fool-proof? ;-) > Nothing is every fool-proof :-) Maybe a link to some 'First time users' instructions'? I'm guessing that instructions on where to find 'Burn an image' or similar on Nero and Roxio would sort out 99% of burning problems. > Though, to be fair, I've seen a couple of Windows CD-burning > applications that give you no option to burn from an image, and a few > that hide the ability. > I haven't seen too many of those apps, but the ones I have seen don't make the image-burn too obvious. I'm not trying to be smart-ass, it's just that for many newbies it's a completely new concept. IMO a lot of duplication of effort in helping these people could be avoided by making provision for them clearly available linked from the download page. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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