You should use the program workbone or some other audio CD player to play the CD. You do not mount audio CD's. Workbone has some problems because of the speakup key map, but you can use it in non-interactive mode. See the man page for the arguments to pass to it. As for your telnet problem, telnet is disabled by default in Slackware 9.0. (Is it in 8.1? I can't remember.) Anyway, you willneed to uncomment the line in inetd.conf if you want telnet access. I'd recommend instead that you use ssh. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net