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. > > -- > > Stuart Ellis > > stuart@xxxxxxxx > > Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ > > GPG key ID: 7098ABEA > GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA > -- > > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list -- Sam Folk-Williams, RHCE Red Hat Global Support Services Phone: 919/754-4558 GPG ID: 1B0D46BA
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