You can't write it to a floppy. You either have to download install.1 through install.5 and write them to 5 floppies, download the initrd.img from the isolinux directory and somehow boot it, or download install.zip and unpack that on the root of a DOS partition. If you can boot CDROMS, you are in luck because you can now type something like "bare.i speakup_synth=bns" and get speech from the CDROM directly. I have the official Slackware CD set and it includes a "Live" CD which lets you boot and run off a CD for demo or rescue purposes. It also has speech support. It is a real shame that the root disks got inflated like they did, but it seems that code bloat is now beginning to rear its ugly head even in Linux.
