Hi folks, Well just wanted to drop a short note to let you guys know i've appreciated the responses i've gotten about the suse distribution, and to answer some of your questions and comments. Sorry I don't remember who said what here. Someone mentioned that they thought the latest version was very graphical, and this is very true, especially if you use this new thing they have called 'yast2' which is an installation/modification tool that you can use to install the system. However, the original 'yast' is still available, and this is a text-based application that works quite well over a serial connection and would probably work fine with speakup as well, although I am not sure you can get the initial install to work over a serial console. I intend to find that out very soon here. This is why I was originally interested in trying to set up a boot floppy with speakup compiled into it. This would eliminate the serial problem altogether. If I find that the suse installation is absolutely unworkable and decide to switch to something else, I do have a redhat 6.1 install disk around here that I can try. However as I said in an earlier post, I do like the way that suse works once it is installed, so I'm going to at least try to make an effort to stick with it if I can. Before I go any further however, I need to get some bigger hard drives for the linux boxes. I'm going to look around for some cheap one to two gig drives, which I don't think will be too difficult to find. The reason I'm going with the relatively small drives is that these are older machines and I can pretty much guarantee they won't be able to be configured for these new huge drives, plus it's easier to conserve space with linux than it is with windows. Well, that's about all I have for now. I'm sure I will have some more questions as soon as I'm ready to try and start this project. Best regards, Tom Mary Beth and the menagerie
