This is similar to zipslack, which also installs on a windows machine with FAT file system (using the umsdos file system). There is a zipspeak version of zipslack, but I'm not sure how recent it is. ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/zipslack/ Slackware speakup notes are here: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/SPEAKUP_DOCS.TXT The requirement for speakup is to install a kernel that has been built with the speakup patches. And there is one right here. ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/kernels/speakup.s/ Speakup should work on any linux distro, provided the kernel has been patched with the speakup code. -- Doug