Greetings, Recently I found the document entitled "HOW to Install the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution" and followed the steps outlined in it as closely as I could. In the end, I wound up with a system that isn't talking and seems to be hanging when it attempts to enable the swap partition. A few comments: 1. During installation the system spoke fine using my DECTalk express. 2. I downloaded the fedora images pointed to by this document. That is, they didn't come from the standard RedHat distribution site. 3. I have two hard drives in the system and chose to leave hdb alone while having everything installed on had. Had is plenty big enough. 4. I elected to let the installation do it's own partitioning. This may not be optimal, but it is simplest. I figured I'd be doing this again later on, so why worry about the particulars during my first attempt. 5. Although the document says I'll get a choice of lilo or grub and should choose lilo for better accessibility, I in fact got a choice of grub or no boot loader. I chose grub but I'm not sure what bad implications this has. 6. After installation, when I reboot, nothing is talking. I used my optacon to verify that the message about enabling the swap partition is the last thing on the screen. Also I attempted to switch consoles but I only get a blinking cursor on other consoles. This doesn't really surprise me as it seems that the system isn't finishing the boot procedure. Any suggestions on how I might debug this situation would be very much appreciated! Thanks, John John R. Mattioli, Jr. Senior Software Engineer Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list