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

Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot,gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.english
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 09:40:59PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>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".

+1
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