Re: Bug#154904: Mini-CD page text is unclear.
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:14:20PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:10:49PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
>> is unclear. Current text in paragraph two is:
>> The network install assumes that either an analogue PPP dialup
>> connection to your Internet provider, or Internet access via Ethernet
>> (possibly using a PCMCIA card in your laptop) is available. It does not
>> support internal ISDN cards - sorry! At some point, we hope to provide
>> official credit card sized CD images which also work for installing with
>> internal ISDN cards. Unfortunately, at the moment there are only
>> unofficial images made by some people:
>>
>> To me, this says that the list of the following ISO images are
>> targeted to people who want to run internal ISDN cards.
>
>Er, I don't understand. The text explicitly says: "It [the network
>install] does NOT support internal ISDN cards?"
I read it as "It [the OFFICIAL netinst image] does NOT support internal ISDN
cards."
I realize now that there is no official netinst image, and I don't know
what the story is with internal ISDN support, but I read over that text
probably 4 or 5 times and still didn't feel that I understood what was
going on.
In specific, I have the following problems with the original text:
It's too long and covering too many ideas to really be a single
paragraph.
The mention of hoping to provide official CDs that support ISDN makes it
seem like there are official CDs that DO NOT support ISDN.
What's unfortunate about the last sentence? That only unofficial images
are available or that they're made by some people?
How about:
NOTE: There are currently no official net install/mini-CD images
available.
The network install assumes that either an analogue PPP dial-up or
Ethernet connection is available to your Internet Service Provider
(ISP). This may be through a PCMCIA adapter on a laptop. Internal ISDN
cards are not supported - sorry!
The following unofficial net install images are available:
Is there anything that you find particularly unclear or missing about my
re-wording of either of the sample alternatives I've provided?
Sean
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