Same installation problem over and over again.

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elmo wrote:
> David Fox wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:30 AM, elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Later, when I had a working UBUNTU, I discovered that it had the
>>> burners, K3B and Brasero that had the ability to create an IMAGE disk.
>>>     
>>
>> Yes. Not only that, if you do a "create new data disk" in K3B and drag
>> & drop the ISO file into the files window to burn, it *assumes* (at
>> least K3B does) that you want to burn the file as an image, and not as
>> a filesystem containing only one file.
>>
>> I have never used nero. Maybe it doesn't make that assumption for you,
>> which causes these sorts of problems?
>>
>>   
>>> Elmo

> 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.

You are one of the people who have decided to break away from the 
closed world of proprietary software, and well done for you!

Windows world has a big investment in keeping much useful information 
away from users. It does this partly under the guise of simplicity and 
convenience. There is enough truth in the convenience story to sustain 
it anyway.

However the mantra of free (freedom) software is that with using 
proprietary software you are kept helpless. Many windows users 
fiercely defend the status quo almost as if they want to remain 
helpless. Perhaps they do, it is for them to choose.

The choice they have exists because freedom software pioneers in GNU 
and Linux, have used considerable effort to create and subsequently 
try to defend, freedom of choice, and knowledge (of code) not 
helplessness. the effort is an ongoing one and success is not guaranteed.

One of the effects of not using windows, and using freedom stuff, is 
that after a time, maybe a year or so, one forgets what it was like 
when one (if ever) used proprietary software. It took me a bit longer, 
and I still try to keep it in mind, to help others out of the swamp - 
if they want to leave that is.

I am mostly surrounded by a windows world, and any mention of the 
alternative to Windows meets with distrust, sometimes derision. It is 
a tiring situation, and the big budget marketing intends it to be.

As you begin to use freedom software more and more, you can help 
others to appreciate more exactly what is needed to assist others to 
dig their escape tunnel, as your patient messages suggest you are 
doing now.

>  Judging from how many Windows 
> users,even now, have difficulty with making
> a proper UBUNTU IMAGE disk, I wasn't alone.

Wherever they are, please do what you can to make their freedom of 
choice a real one by offering suitable information?

> Now, I use either Brasero or K3B and have 3 variations of UBUNTU 
> installed, one on an external HD.

Welcome to freedom!

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