Re: Same installation problem over and over again.

Andy wrote:
elmo wrote:

Nero has something called "Burn Image to disk" but anyone who lived in a
Windows environment
only and has never before had the need to make an image disk may never
think of looking for it
in Nero. I'm one of those people. Judging from how many Windows
users,even now, have difficulty with making
a proper UBUNTU IMAGE disk, I wasn't alone.


The instructions at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto>
seem to be pretty simple to follow.

I disagree that the instructions are simple to follow. Look at it the
way a Window user would or anyone who has never had to create a UBUNTU
CD. At first reading, they may appear simple but they are misleading.

QUOTE: "Ubuntu is distributed over the Internet as CD image files,
called ISOs. To install Ubuntu, you first need to burn its ISO file onto
a CD"

This is the exact wording from that website.

OK, so we look in our CD burner for a way to burn the ISO to a CD.
Instead, we find something that will burn an IMAGE, not an ISO.
Oops, wrong one?????

My comments take into consideration, the person who has no idea of what
a ISO or IMAGE file is, very likely someone who has experience in
Windows only and has never had the need to work with ISO and IMAGE.
Also, Linux/UBUNTU users who have never had the need to make their own
disks.

Since Nero is the CD/DVD burner many Windows machines have, my comments
use Nero as an example. I know there are other burners available for
Windows and I'll bet none of them will burn an ISO to a CD but they can
burn the IMAGE. The process basically involves two things, extracting
the files from ISO and simultaneously burning them as IMAGE.

This is largely a semantics problem. Wrong choice of words, using ISO
and IMAGE interchangeably. It can make all the difference to
a newcomer from the Windows world and perhaps even anyone experienced in
Linux/UBUNTU who has never had to make their own IMAGE disk.
(or should I call it an ISO disk?)

Elmo


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