Hi, Am Dienstag, 10. September 2019 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > >I wonder if this works for cases, where the installation medium is a > >CD or DVD? > > > >Do people know what is meant, when you talk about the CD as an > >"installation device"? Is a CD (the optical disc, not the device > >file under Linux!) known as "a device"? > > Not really, IMHO. > > >I am not a native English speaker, but German. > >At least in German I think that would not work. > > > >This proposal is to find a coverterm for all installation mediums: CDs, DVDs, > >floppys, USB sticks, ISO files within virtual machines ... > >This approach should have higher priority than grammatical refinements IMHO. > > We could just go back to "disk" or "installation disk"?
How would that work in English for a USB thumbdrive? Would that also fit? Holger -- Sent from my Jolla phone http://www.jolla.com/
