The issues with slackware 12.0 not prompting for replacement of disk1 and exploding when the /kernels/speakup.s directory cannot be found have been made far worse in slackware 12.1. Earlier I wrote about a workaround for slackware 12.0 in which all packages that were checked starting with [f,k,t,x,y] needed to be unchecked and installed later no longer works in slackware 12.1. You do get down to where the kernel copy is supposed to happen but slackware 12.1 now errors out at that point and does not copy any kernel automagically. If an upgrade path is possible and anyone doing this will need to take the exclude off of kernel* because slackware has recompiled all kernels for slackware 12.1 including speakup.s and put all of the security fixes into them that were current at the date of this kernel's release. The last time such a recompile was done was with Slackware 7.0 at least by the people over at slackware.com. Understand this bad experience has happened multiple times over here and on every occassion I had a talking install since I did include the proper speakup parameters to make it happen for this synthesizer. What happens after the kernel fails to install is that it's also impossible to install lilo since lilo needs as a prerequisite to have that kernel on that hard drive living happily.
