On 17/07/17 19:17, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:> Hi T G-R, > Yeah, that was me. I don't understand how an actual operating system > on a drive is an image. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, dunno, but I think > an image is something that is made up by light rays on a screen, not > the real object. In the case of computing an image is a backup file > of a drive, not what is on the drive to begin with. > > Also, even if it were an image, the image shouldn't say "<foo> image" > in the image itself. A mirror which doesn't add anything to your > image when you look into it, either :)
I agree completely. I've become so used to dd'ing ISOs to USB drives that I've come to think *only* in terms of fake discs, but you're right. I chose ‘image’ reluctantly, because my first ideas (‘installer’, ‘vm’) were even less relevant: this label's used for all disc images. Oh well. We could choose the worst and ugliest label possible: that'd compel someone to fix this! (No. "GuixSD_image" it is.) Thanks, T G-R
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