Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2
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- Subject: Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2
- From: Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:18:12 +0100
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Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> The only alternative I can think of (from Justin's list)
>> would be installation image.
>> Additional benefit would be, that this term seems to be the
>> most used on the Debian website.
>> So if users know that term from the website or find it there, they can make the connection to the messages in d-i,
>> if in doubt what is meant.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> An "installation image" is a regular file. It has to be copied onto a
> physical device, or mapped as a virtual device, to create an
> "installation disk".
There are dialogues where it's basically talking about looking at an
image on a disk, so I'd have thought we need both terms in any case.
How about if I go ahead and try producing a patch that uses both
"installation image" and "installation disk", just to see how that
looks?
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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