Hi, in the long run it doesn't matter if there is an operating system on the computer you are installing Linux to. You can use options in the Linux setup to remove Window's/dos partitions, and create new ones if you need to. Which since you have never had Linux on the computer you'll need to do that anyway to get rid of a Window's fat file system if that is what you had on it last. Obviously, the one you are going to use to read the install with will need a screen reader of some kind, a terminal application, and at least dos or window's. If you are planning on using Fedora you'll want to read the Fedora installation howto on the speakup web site. The only difference is that you'll be doing it remotely via a serial connection rather than directly using speakup. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:11 AM Subject: Re: New > Is this method assuming there is no operating system on the pc that will > contain speakup or that something is installed? > Sean