Hi Bruce: If you want to install Slackware, you will need both a boot disk and a root disk. If you have primarily IDE hard-drives, you will need one of the bare.i boot disks. If you have SCSI equipment, you will need one of the scsi.s boot disk images. See the README file at the speakup ftp site. The address is linux-speakup.org. I see you are using Microsoft outlook. If it'll let you click on it, here is a link to the README file: ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/README Also, check out the free Speakup Slackware audio tutorial. You can either get to it from the Speakup Audio page at: http://linux-speakup.org/speakup-audio.html or at: http://www.nortcom.org The only thing not adequately covered in the tutorial is the special parameters you should use if your synth isn't automatically detected. The README file mentioned above does refer to these however. Hope this helps.