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Glenn:
They probably just put a bit to much on the disk. Last time they made a 
distro they were cramming everything in, then had to go back out and 
yank a bunch of stuff. End result there was a ton of crap and they 
yanked some of the good utilities. If you can just use a DVD, I 
recommend that.
On 7/3/2012 10:19 AM, Glenn wrote:
> I thought that Vinux uses Speakup.
> I would rather not join a special list for Vinux, since I don't use it a
> lot, and I thought that some of the folks here could help.  I am on a Ubuntu
> list, but I would probably get the same response there.
> I have burned many disks, in both windows and Linux, and when the
> Ubuntu/Vinux gives you the option to burn it, and it reads the blank disk in
> the drive and reads back that there would not be enough space, even with the
> over-burn option, I'd say I did the burn process properly, but the disk was
> not big enough.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bohdan R. Rau" <ethanak at polip.com>
> To: "Glenn" <glennervin at gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for
> Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: contacting Vinux Project
>
>
> Would you tell us, how did you try to burn this image? I've never any
>   problem with burning Vinux images on CD.
>   Also - do you really think it's proper mailing list?
>
>   On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 10:43:21 -0500, Glenn wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> If anyone here knows how to reach anyone in the Vinux project, let
>> them know
>> that their file on their site is too large for a CD.
>> The file is Vinux-3.0.2-I386.iso
>> It is the first file on the download site.
>> I tried to contact them, and I could not understand the audio
>> challenge, I
>> was able to make out three of the words, but that was apparently not
>> enough.
>> Anyway, they need to know that I burned it to a DVD and it booted
>> okay, and
>> I installed onto a USB drive, and it boots okay, so I doubt that it
>> was a
>> bad download, since I downloaded it twice, and both times it read
>> that it
>> was 698 MB, yet both windows and Vinux would not burn it to a disk,
>> saying
>> it was too large for a CD.
>> I tried disks all day with no success.
>> I would have given up on it, but I'm doing this for someone who wants
>> to try
>> Vinux.
>>
>> Glenn
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup


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