Hi steve you may just want to actually use a floppy to do this. This is how I've always done it. Then run lilo -r /floppy. Let me know how it goes. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > I am trying to create a new slackware boot image. I loaded the original > speakup.i into a ram device - no problem there. I then modified the > lilo.conf to include a synth parameter for speakout - no problem. But I > tried to do a lilo -r /mnt (mount point to my ram device) and I keep > getting errors such as non existant device and such. It apparently > doesn't like ft0 while using this RAM based floppy device. How have you > all out there done this? I'm obviously referring to those who have done > this before:). > > Any help? > > Thanks for the idea. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com