I'm happy with espeak and don't run a full desktop, so I can't really help with those aspects, but what I can say is that the ext partition definitely wasn't the old Windows install. Windows uses NTFS for its system partitions and has done so since at least the XP days. Most Linux distros default to EXT3/4 for both root and home partitions, though other formats are supported by some distros. Without knowing more, I suspect Ubuntu's installer might have done some guided partitioning that used the entire disc, creating small root and swap partitions in sda1 and sda2 and putting most of the drives contents into sda3, which is a fairly common set-up for single boot Linux machines. Again, without knowing more, I can't say for certain, and I'm not sure which command would be best for getting a print out of all partitions on sda. As for the Boot Loader, I haven't set up a dual boot since the XP days, but even if you have a properly setup dual boot, one OS is going to boot by default, and I would think most OSes would put themselves as the default when installing the boot loader(though it could be worse, since unless Microsoft has gotten their act together, which I highly doubt, the boot loader Windows installs can't boot Linux at all). Sadly, as far as I know, grub has no accessibility features at all, so even if you had a properly configured dual boot, I'm not sure a blind user could reliably boot the secondary OS without assistance(or even boot an alternative kernel on a Linux-only system with mutltiple kernel versions installed). I don't know if things have changed since the XP days, but the last time I setup a dual boot Win/Lin machine, the recommended procedure was: Off load anything you don't want to lose to external media. Install Windows, leaving at least half the disc unformatted. Install Linux using the unformatted space leftover from the Windows install. -- Sincerely, Jeffery Wright Bachelor of Computer Science President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list