Gregory, I am sure I wrote the color.gz file and not the umsdos.gz file. I too was confused about the umsdos error. As far and the disk space and partitioning, I understand mostly. I was just thinking that I might need a certain amount of hard drive space available before I could even get the floppies to execute all the way through. I read the speakup install and speakup documentation text files about 4 times each. Unfortunatley I am just getting some error messages along the way. Thanks. Rodney -----Original Message----- ... Are you sure you wrote the color.gz image to the disk?