On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 20:44 +0300, John Babich wrote: > To Whom It May Concern (especially stickster): > > A computer-savvy friend of mine downloaded the DVD ISO and needed to > burn a bootable DVD to install Fedora 8. (He finally had enough of > Windows XP and Windows Genuine Advantage, but that's another story.) > > I pointed him to the "Fedora Guide on Burning CDs and DVDs", my > paraphrase of the title. > > Here's his feedback: > > "OK, now coming to you from a Fedora 8 system using a Firefox web > browser. At least a few things are familiar! I think I've figured out > the problems a bit better now. > > The application Fedora recommends to write bootable files is > hard-coded to use CDs. If you follow the links on the man's page, you > can see where his Vista release is where he started supporting DVDs. I can't figure out what this last paragraph means. To what "man's page" is he referring? Can you give more details? > The other applications, Nero, Roxio, HonestSoft and several others > also had some hard-coding inside. Specifically, they assumed a 3.2GB > file must be a video and it modified the format to something > appropriate for delivering video data but was no longer bootable. > They also assumed that if a bootable DVD was wanted, the information > to be written was very small. They would not write the file in UDF but > instead used some other format which in turn, did not support files > over 2GB. Obviously this resulted in an error code followed by exit." Wow, it only gets worse for Windows users. So glad I escaped that trap years ago. :-) But in any case, if someone has these applications available, what I really need to improve this doc is testing help -- that means someone who can (1) use the English language in a manner sufficient to give me detailed and relevant information on how this works for an app he has installed, and (2) can test directions without variance and offer appropriate feedback. > I hope this is useful. At least this story has a happy ending. :-) Well, I'm glad it has a happy ending, for sure! However, it would be more useful if I had more details than the above. I don't have any of these OM-burning applications at my disposal, so I rely purely on the input of equipped contributors to deliver any fixes or solutions. If your friend would like to file a bug and enter a dialog with me that way, I'm all for it! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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