Same installation problem over and over again.

[elmo]

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