Hi, I don't know of a program for verifying a kickstart file. If your IP address is routable, I'd be happy to help you with a telnet installation over the phone. The Speakup keymaps are available in RH9, although there a little old. They'll be fine for an initial installation. I do recommend that you upgrade the kbd package along with the kernel. Use the clean kernel-source-2.4.20-9.i386.rpm from RH to add the CVS version of Speakup to. You'll have to hand patch keyboard.c, Janina or I can help with that. Any questions, call or write. HTH. -- Bill in Denver