Hi dan, the reason for this might be bios related. your bios might be thinking that your floppy drive is a 1.2 Mb drive instead of a 1.44 Mb drive. hth On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote: > Sorry my explanation was incorrect. the big delay occurs before speakup > starts talking. the floppy sits there and just clunks away for about 7 to > 10 minutes, then eventually speakup starts up, and the installation > proceeded as normal. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno at goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435