Hi, Greg. The solution was actually pretty simple. What I did was asked my dad to help me switch the bios to boot off the cdrom. Then, at the boot prompt I typed: linux text speakup_synth=dectlk Then, the 8.0 setup took off with speech. I'm still unsure why the floppy setup disk didn't work, but at least I do know that booting from the cdrom and running setup there will work with speech under Red Hat 8.0.
