could someone please perhaps tell me what is wrong with these lines? I seem to have linux going, because something scrolls up the screen for a couple minutes, but I cannot get speech going yet. You will read 2 lines, one is for zipslack on my 250 Mb zipdisk, and the other is my removable drive D. You will notice the lines wrapping, but that is only in this e-mail... for the zip disk, b: b:\linux\loadlin b:\linux\vmlinuz root=/defv/hdb4 rw b:\linux\speakup_ser=1 b:\linux\speakup_synth=dectlk for the removable 200MB harddrive: d:\linux\loadlin d:\linux\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb rw d:\linux\speakup_synth=dectlk_ser=1 Notice that I last tried putting in the path to speakup, but it did not help. I have tried it with and without the jfd screenreader, and I have tried it with and without running dtexp.bat first (to load the dectalk driver). Thanks. Sincerely, O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV Northeast Nebraska gervin at kdsi.net or My Work e-mail: gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us