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

[David Sjölin]

Hello!

I remember that when I created a usb from ISO I had some strange
problem making the USB bootable. Maybe some comment on how to do that?
I don't remember how I did it then, but I assume using fdisk or
something? Dismount the USB, fidks /dev/sdb1 (or whatever it could be
on the users computer) and change the bootable flag (?). And a comment
on how to find the device for the USB.

Other than that this looks like a good design.

Regards,

David


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Maarten Vanraes
<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>