Hi all, Ok i think i'v just about got it. Down load zip slack. go to the kernal/speak up and copy the speak up dot i (i have an ide hard drive). Copy this file into the /kernal directory? Is that right? Do i need to delete the original kernal? Edit the linux.bat file so that it will work with my hardware synth. Do i need to down load a floppy disk boot image so that it will boot into dos with the auto exec.bat and config.sys are correctly configured? I seem to remember something about emm386 and something else, , maybe loading dos into upper memory both have to be present or both have to be not present? Hope that made sense. Nigel