Re: Boot cd

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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:23 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:

> What might be even better is to point to the image only
> *through* the document which specifies how to burn the image.

In the past, that was how I *first* found out how to get my hands on
Linux.  Though It's possible that a search engine might land me right at
the downloads directory without any such information.

> Like this:
> 
> 	[] Click here to download the FC5 images
> 	
> which points to a page with....
> 
> 	[] Click here to download for Windows
> 	[] Click here to download for Linux
> 	[] Click here for expert download
> 
> Each (except expert) points to a page like this...
> 
> 	The image you are about to download requires special
> 	techniques for writing to CD. If you already know
> 	how to burn an ISO to CD, you may <skip> this portion
> 	of the instructions. (<skip> is a clickable link to
> 	skip over the instructions pointing down below)
> 
> 	(more instructions here)
> 
> 	[] Click here to download the images
> 
> This last link goes to the same location marked above for "expert
> download".
> 
> What do you think?

It's an approach that I would take, though bearing in mind what I said
above, I'd try and make sure that the download page (the one that simply
lists the available files) has some of that information on it as well.

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