Hi all, I posted this to the blinux-newbie at braille.uwo.ca list, but haven't seen any traffic other than my message for several days now. I was hoping someone here could help me. After taking about a year's break I'm ready to dive into the beginnings of linux again. This time I have a much better system to work with thankfully. i have a HP 900 Mhz AMD system with 128 MB of RAM. I've downloaded and installed the zipspeak distribution, and the dectlk kernal and bootdisk image with speakup. I've used rawrite to make the boot disk, since I'm using windows ME, I think that's the only way I'll be able to boot the system since there is no DOS mode available to me to bnoot from. Using the boot disk, at the beep I type: mount root=/dev/hda1 rw the system was unzipped to c:\linux, on my primary IDE drive. The floppy reads and accesses for a few minutes and then everything stops with no speach at all. I have my Dectalk express connected to Com1. Can anyone help me fingure out what's wrong and how I can get things going? Thanks so much! -Matthew
