I patched speakup into the sys-kernel/vanilla-sources kernel which is now up to 2.4.21 I believe. Basically what you do to install gentoo is untar a gentoo stage tarball into an empty partition then follow there install instructions. It is not necessary to have an actual gentoo cdrom to install this. I suspect even a toms root disk would do. When you untar the tar ball you chroot into the gentoo environment and do all of your configuration inside the gentoo chroot. Doug
