2011/3/25 Frank Griffin <f...@roadrunner.com>: > > You can say what you like about newbies or "Aunt Edna", but anyone who can > find one ISO for themselves can find two, and the argument about how the > drivers/firmware wouldn't take up much space on the DVD goes both ways, > since downloading a separate ISO for them is then not that big a deal in > terms of bandwidth. > > If you can't understand a reasonably verbose panel that says that "your > computer's hardware requires our secondary network/drivers/firmware > CD/DVD/ISO in order to activate networking", and says that you can find it > in the same place you got this disk, be that a network repository or a > friend who burned it for you, then you probably need to be reminded to > breathe. Such people are hardly about to be Mageia early-adopters, and we > have some time to discuss how we want to deal with them.
+1 Especially migrators from Windows will understand this "To activate this hadware you need an extra driver" approach - they see it almost every time they install a hardware which is not really mainstream (and for some mainstream hardware as well). -- wobo