at bottom :- On 2/23/15, Brian Potkin <claremont...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon 23 Feb 2015 at 04:08:47 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> As a newbie, I do remember the confusion and had to ask people on the >> #debian channel and then also was not sure so downloaded the 1st DVD >> to get the installer working. It should make it easier to understand >> as what is needed/essential. > > Please say in what way > > https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ > > does not disperse any confusion. > > Regards, > > Brian.
Brian, It does disperse, but you are putting faith that when a person is confused he will rush straight to the FAQ. I don't think it does happen like that. What would be good if there were some stats. of people who went to CD page and then successfully downloaded the CD/DVD image. At least on the page linked (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.8.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ or even http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.8.0/amd64/iso-cd/) there doesn't seem to no way to tell to the user that your answer is an FAQ which is located somewhere else. So either the page should have a link to the FAQ at the very least if that argument has to be told. It would be difficult for anybody to take that jump from where s/he is to where you are pointing. I *think* instead of just going back and forth if there are any stats. on successful downloads would be glad to know those. @Hideki Yamane - now playing Devil's advocate from the other side - Actually if you look at https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ it does state in 'bold' that the first disk has what is needed for normal desktop application. For a normal new user who comes, he would probably land up at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ and from there to https://www.debian.org/CD/ If anything has to rejigged, it probably would be on the CD page. If I were a clueless newbie for instance, I woul have liked to have the http/ftp more up the order rather than jigdo or torrents, as these would be familiar only to a person who has worked with torrents or jigdo (meaning somewhat familiarity with Debain process). Looking forward to both as you both think how a 'normal' user would try to download from and will he get the required info. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CADdDZRnAEWR2KmE99bOG8YpsqZ=fumwiohoyxydajctren7...@mail.gmail.com
