Documentation on Installing Ubuntu has inconsistencies

[Phill Whiteside]

> 3) I'd like to make the point that english-reading but non-technical
> persons may not know that USB sticks, flash media, USB drive are the
> same thing. It could be helpful clearing these terms, and using an
> uniform word.

This is a difficult one, because there is no standard term. I'll try to
clarify that they all mean the same thing.

Under 10.04 the wording was changed from create "usb startup disk" to just
create "startup disk"

or words to that effect (I'm in Lubuntu atm, so cannot recall the exact
phrasing).

Maybe the question should / could be "does your computer support booting
from an external device?"; at which point we open the proverbial 'can of
worms'

I'd suggest that there is a link put in to
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/testing-your-system-for-usb-boot-compatibility/

So people can check their system, or point to as separate article.

It seems little point in re-inventing the wheel for a good 'How-To', and
that site does give easy to follow tutorials.
The only thing to add is that some computers can 'see' SD cards as bootable
now, they can also be run in persistence mode

Definitely a 'can of worms' (Says he who has yet to figure out the formating
system for documentation)

just my $0.02 worth, hope it helps on thinking like a Noob to Ubuntu.

Regards,

Phill.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rafael,
>
> Thanks for getting in touch. Sorry it's taken a while to respond.
>
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:20 +0000, Rafael Wild wrote:
> > There are 3 pages about installing Ubuntu which I want to comment (in
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community):
> >
> > "BurningIsoHowto" explains how to make an installation CD given an ISO
> > image.
> >
> > "Installation/FromUSBStick" explains how to make an installation
> > USB-Stick given an ISO image.
> >
> > "Installation/FromImgFiles" explains how to make an installation
> > FlashDevice given an IMG image.
> >
> > Well. In the "releases.ubuntu.com/releases/10.04"
> > http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/10.04/ page, we read the
> following:
> >
> > "If you need help burning these images to disk, see the CD Burning Guide
> > or the USB Image Writing Guide."
>
> I'm planning to write a new guide for USB-based installations in the
> next few days. I'll try to get the release page updated with a link to
> the new guide, and clearer instructions on which to use.
>
> [...]
> > 3) I'd like to make the point that english-reading but non-technical
> > persons may not know that USB sticks, flash media, USB drive are the
> > same thing. It could be helpful clearing these terms, and using an
> > uniform word.
>
> This is a difficult one, because there is no standard term. I'll try to
> clarify that they all mean the same thing.
>
> > 4) Ubuntu UNR 9.10 has only ISOs, so I think it is less confusing. But
> > even so there is only a reference about USB drives (very important for
> > the netbook people) in the "BurningIsoHowto" page.
>
> I'll see about updating this too.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
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