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Hi everyone. As some of you may know, I have
been struggling to get Viavoice running. I had it running on Mandrake, which
worked up through 8.2, but no longer works on 9.0 or 9.1. So now I am back
to 8.2; it works there. But I would like to use a more up to date linux; I
learned on the web that it works on SuSE, including the most recent, 8.2.
Downloading SuSE is kind of tricky. You first have to download a boot.iso
file, and then connect through ftp to their server. When you do get there,
it needs to download a large ram disk >45mb, from which it installs the
program. I was able to do all that on my son's "killer" fast AMD game
machine (which I rarely get to use), but not able to get it downloaded and
installed on my K6-500. I have gotten as far as completing the ram disk,
but then it freezes somewhere during the install; the farthest I have gotten is
about 48% installed. Now each time I try again, it seems worse, i.e. freezes
somewhere during the ram disk download. I am guessing it is either a speed
issue (my slow processor) or ram (have 190mb). Any ideas?
Looks like I could copy (download) all the 8.2
files to the faster machine and possibly install over my network. I have
not yet tried to install ViaVoice on RH9, another possible option. Also I
am fairly sure it could work on Debian, since it worked (mostly) on Xandros.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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