Greetings. On an old machine in school, I decided to install Arch Linux while the rest of my Unix class was installing FreeBSD on a virtual PC. I was almost finished, trying to make sure it would come up talking, but doing this threw an error, which I can't remember, but something about a non-existing alsa-utils package. pacman --root=/mnt --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -Sy alsa-utils speakup espeakup This followed the guide to the letter, though I had no need to edit the pacman.conf file, or at least that's how I saw it, as I was still working from the CD. What did I do wrong? Thanks, Nick Long Island, New York cofounder, HKC Radio, www.HKCRadio.com Email and Windows Live Messenger/Jabber: Nick at HKCRadio.com AIM: NickG6489 Skype: Nick6489 Telephone: +1-360-215-5362