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installing/cloud: add note against installation using AWS VMDK image #334

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Add note about not recommending installation using AWS VMDK image, due to intermittent AWS AMI corruption issues.

Add note about not recommending installation using AWS VMDK image,
due to intermittent AWS AMI corruption issues.
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ We will be launching three instances, with a few parameters in the User Data, an

## Installation from a VMDK image

Note: it is not recommened to install from a VMDK image, due to intermittent AMI corruptions. Please consider using a raw image `flatcar_production_ami_image.bin.bz2` instead.
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Is there maybe an issue with some background for this recommendation?

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Note: it is not recommened to install from a VMDK image, due to intermittent AMI corruptions. Please consider using a raw image `flatcar_production_ami_image.bin.bz2` instead.
Note: It is not recommened to install from a VMDK image, due to intermittent AMI corruptions in the AWS import function ([more information in this closed issue](https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/issues/840)). Please consider using a raw image `flatcar_production_ami_image.bin.bz2` instead.

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Note: it is not recommened to install from a VMDK image, due to intermittent AMI corruptions. Please consider using a raw image `flatcar_production_ami_image.bin.bz2` instead.
Note: it is not recommended to install from a VMDK image, due to intermittent AMI corruptions. Please consider using a raw image `flatcar_production_ami_image.bin.bz2` instead.

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Hello, this repo is now archived. This PR should be re-opened against: https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-website.

To update your commit(s):

PR_ID=334
cd flatcar/flatcar-website
wget "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/flatcar/flatcar-docs/pull/${PR_ID}.patch"
sed -i 's|/docs/|/content/docs/latest/|g' "${PR_ID}.patch"
git am "${PR_ID}.patch"

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