[Mageia-dev] Suggestion: what to do with iso?

Thu Apr 28 11:24:08 CEST 2011

Op donderdag 28 april 2011 10:01:53 schreef Romain d'Alverny:
+> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:52, Maarten Vanraes
+> > 
+> > <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> >> So,
+> >> 
+> >> I was talking to someone i know about Mageia, and she poked around the
+> >> site, but then asked how to put the iso on an usbstick, since her
+> >> netbook didn't have cdrom.
+> >> 
+> >> I had to admit i didn't know exactly how, which brings me to my point:
+> >> 
+> >> Perhaps it would be nice to have a link on the download page, on how to
+> >> handle the iso for people who don't know how? (ie: burn it; or
+> >> usb-stick-ify it)
+> >> 
+> >> WDYT?
+> 
+> It's always good to have this kind of documentation, that we can
+> provide on the download page for after use.
+> 
+> Related docs:
+>  * http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Draklive#Building_a_live_CD_or_live_USB
+>  *
+> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installing_Mandriva_Linux#Installation_fr
+> om_a_USB_stick * maybe others I didn't find
+> 
+> about this, but no equivalent doc on our side for now (in Wiki or website).
+> 
+> So someone to write an article about this is welcome.
+> 
+> Note that Ubuntu does something quite nice as well about this (the
+> "show me how" thing):
+> http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
+> 
+> Romain
+
+I would prefer to not link the download page to our temporary wiki, as it 
+doesn't look that good imho.
+
+an extra translatable page on the website would sound good, i suppose:
+
+rough format:
+-----------------
+What to do with this iso file?
+
+first, choose the right one for you.
+==> explanation about 32bit/64bit
+==> mention about dualboot
+==> mention about live iso and how you can install that if you want
+==> mention about the other isos and briefly what they mean
+
+option 1) burn it to CD/DVD with your favourite CD/DVD burner
+==> examples with small screenshot from windows/macosx/linux
+==> notice on size of iso and CD or DVD format, notion about RW also being ok
+==> explanation of verifying md5sum
+
+option 2) how to put an iso on a stick?
+==> examples with small screenshot from windows/macosx/linux
+==> explanation of verifying md5sum
+
+option 3) virtualisation
+==> briefly mention XEN/KVM/Vbox/VMWare
+==> explanation of importance of verifying an md5sum
+
+
+something like this...
+