Bill or Janina, I still have some questions about Fedora. I followed your steps and did a rpm -ih kernel#i686 for Fedora Core 4. I also did the initrd but do to the way I did some of the rpms I did not get stuff like Festival on my syste. Firstly, what software speech synths are supported. Secondly, I couldn't get to sysimage as this is after installing. So I just did an initrd. Thirdly I am also having brltty issues. I did rpm -Uhf brltty-3.7.21-1.i386.rpm. However I cannot get brltty to start. Can you tell me do rpms go in their own home similar to Debain? Secondly, if you want to work on a certain kernel how do you ensure with the tab that it is proper? It has been oodles of years since I worked with any redhat stuff so excuse me if it sounds dumb. -- Scott Berry electronicman1961 at myfreedombox.com Check out my lazy web doodle at: http://www.myfreedombox.com/users/electronicman1961/ Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. www.freedombox.info