Thanks for all of your help thus far. Well I created two new floppy disks. This time I used the rawrite windows version. I used the speakup.i version from the speakup website since that is supposed to be better with ppp, but I used a different color.gz than the one on the speakup site. This time I used the color.gz from the Slackware 8.0 install CD I had downloaded and burned. Results: Same boot time and 4:34 seconds before the synth started talking. But when it starts talking, if I silence the speech and go to the last line, the root disk prompt is there. I inserted the root disk and got a lot further this time. Speakup did not stop talking on me and I was able to get a couple errors off of the screen. Error message number 1: UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted. Error message number 2: Invalid session number or type of track Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 02:1c I don't know what to do. Is it a space issue? Should I boot to dos and format the hard drive so I know it is empty? Rodney
