Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2

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

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