Hello there Gordan, This is Saqib Shaikh; I wrote the Speakup documentation that comes with Slackware. Firstly I agree that SuSE did something very good by including a braille screen reader within their distribution. However, there are a few points to bear in mind: 1. You have 7 CDs and a DVD but there is only half a CD of console apps! Most of the extra stuff, like VMWare demo, StarOffice, RealPlayer, Adobe Acrobat and the list goes on, are only accessible through X. I still think SuSE is a good distro, but also remember that SuSE started off as Slackware with RPM support, and then they began adding lots of X stuff. In short Slackware is good especially to start off with. In terms of partitioning your hard disk have you tried: cfdisk /dev/hdc That is pass the disk name as a parameter. Email again if you require further info. Saqib
