Newbie, Adding Speakup to existing RH7.2 installation

[Jason]

yeah, speakup's just a kernel source patch, apply it and recompile... no need 
to worry about partitions getting hosed, and if you do it the right way you 
can even keep an option in your bootloader for your old (known good) kernel.

> Hi Listers,
>
> I am a low vision user of linux and would like to add speakup to my laptop.
> I have been futzing around with linux for about a year, but am still a
> newbie. I already have stock Redhat 7.2 installed, along with WinME and
> WinXP. If it's not too difficult, I would like to install speakup without
> doing a full install of the modified Redhat/Speakup ISO's. I am basically
> afraid of hosing my current partitioning. Is there more to it than just
> replacing the kernel?  I looked through the mailing list archives for clues
> and saw mention of ftp://ftp.octothorp.org/pub/redhat-7.2/b1/RedHat/RPMS/.
> Are these the modified or stock RPM's?
>
> Can someone give me some direction and/or point me to any specific doc's
> for doing this?
>
> Thanks.
>