This sort goes with my thread from last week, changing synths under speakup. I installed the new kernel-image-2.4.26-speakup but when I went to make a new a new initrd using mkinitrd and the instructions provided in the fadora howto, mkinitrd complained there was no -v or -f option. The fadora also tells you to go to a directory called /mnt/sysimage which doesn't exist on my system. If anyone knows the debian way to do any of this please help. Sean