Last night I burned the KNOPPIX_v3-2-2003-07-26-EN-speakup.iso" to an 80 Minute CDR andd tested it out. It works great. I never knew how much information I have lost. I guess it is time to go to the how to's and start learning. One of these days I guess I will have to reformat my IBM ThinkPad 390E's hard drive and make it my linux machine. I did remember to shutdown with "shutdown -h now". I was thinking if it was possible to have Speakup run with a software synth and include it in the kernel. So I do not have to keep typeing "knoppix 2 speakup_synth=dectlk" all the time at the boot prompt. Are these two things possible? If so, how do I do them? I am a newbie to all this, so instructions please. I guess I will copy the CD onto my hard drive to do the modifications and burn a new CD later. Angus MacKinnon Crest Saying Latin - Audentes Fortuna Juvat English - Fortune Assists The Daring Web Page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. http://www.choroideremia.org --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.591 / Virus Database: 374 - Release Date: 18/02/2004