Hi Terry: I will the the boot disks to someone else, there are quite a few ways to do that. The one I use is to dd a kernel to a floppy and just let it boot from the regular stuff on the hard drive. I do that because most when I fuck things up it's from recompiling kernels. As far as changing a configuration, I edit the .config file and delete all of the speakup lines. I then run make dep and make bzImage to recompile the important things. You have to be careful because you can really fuck up things. I changed a synth yesterday and now the box I was using has no networking. I haven't hunted that down yet. You must do a make oldconfig and you will just get prompted for the speakup stuff. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061