Hi Yep, quite simple. When the disk stops spinning at the boot: prompt, just type text. It will come up in text installation, though I believe the speakup boot disks for 6.1 are broken and some modules won't load. --text follows this line-- awesome-dave1 at juno.com writes: > Hello, > Does anyone know how to get the redhat linux 6.1 install to go in to > text mode so I can install either via a speakup bootdisk or serial > terminal?