Hi all, OK; I downloaded the boot.img from the Speakup site which is supposed to constitute the boot disk for starting the RedHat 7.2 installation with speech. I made it into a boot disk with the following command: dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k After this, with the first RedHat 7.2 CD in the CDROM drive, I booted from the boot disk, waited until all disk activity stopped, then typed the following command to get started with the Accent PC synthesizer: text speakup_synth=acntpc There was some more disk activity, but silence, no speech at all. Where have I gone wrong? Thanks.