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

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.english,gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 19:08 +0000, Holger Wansing wrote:
[...]
> So installation disk would be fine.
> 
> The only alternative I can think of (from Justin's list) 
> would be installation image.
> Additional benefit would be, that this term seems to be the
> most used on the Debian website.
> So if users know that term from the website or find it there, they can make the connection to the messages in d-i,
> if in doubt what is meant.
> 
> What do you think?

An "installation image" is a regular file.  It has to be copied onto a
physical device, or mapped as a virtual device, to create an
"installation disk".

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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