I used espeak-squeeze-i386.iso to install espeak on an amd kathelon k8 machine. The installation was successful and when the system boots up the sound card speaks all kinds of failure messages and a message about acpi conflict but boots up and runs notwithstanding all of that. There's exceptions thrown too and I went with the default kernel choice. I can provide my dmesg.log file but will put that on my website if anyone would like to look at the details. Some additional notes. The reason for inability to find internet sites from which to install the base system on this kind of hardware is that dns connections get brought up or at least this system thinks they have been brought up but this system is thinking connections are up prematurely. If a test like ping google.com could be run by the install program and checked for packet loss until packet loss no longer occurs these problems would all disappear permanently. I discovered this because when the base system failed to install I ended up back on the main menu and tried running the install base system choice again and the second try from the main menu worked perfectly. The disk did not beep as it was being booted, so I waited until the cd sounded like it had stopped to key in my expert boot parameter and the system accepted that parameter. What's so amazing about this installation is when I boot the system I get to hear my sound card tell me installation of espeakup has failed yet it still speaks. All of that having been written this has been a good and valuable piece of work.
