I did a little more experimentation with that version of slackware. I found out it's not necessary to copy the speakup kernel onto the system so long as you do an install with only packages from the first disc. If speakup is specified on the boot line and slackware finds it that's what slackware puts on the system without asking. This is officially a bug and will be fixed in the next version most likely. The installation is supposed to happen the way it's documented on http://slackbook.org. Once the installation gets finished on disc1 and a boot into the new system has happened it's no problem to mount disc2 and run installpkg in the package subdirectories from disc2 to install any missing packages. That's the way I got around that installation bug. Unfortunately my combination of monitor card slackware doesn't support so I can go as far as text only until a better card gets found. What I have is an NVidia geforce 3410 card and no color depth setting is correct for that card with a Gateway EV-910 Monitor and this version of slackware. The good news is that's the only fatal found in Xorg.0.log when I try configuring and running xwindows. I have a trident vga card in an older computer I may try later this week to see if I can get past this error and get gnome installed on slackware. The flavor of gnome I have has orca available in it for slackware too.
