According to Cleverson Casarin Uliana: # Is there any issue installing ArchLinux right now using the current # TalkingArch from July, or another image is planned for soon? There will be no issues with either GRUB2 or syslinux aside from the normal issues you will see in the wiki, as your choice of bootloader is to be installed after the base system. The main issue is the conversion to systmed, which should occur automatically upon installing base. If initscripts is installed on the base system, follow the documentation at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd to get a working systemd installation. However, this should not be a problem, as systemd-sysvcompat is part of the base package group that will be installed from the internet when you run pacstrap /path/to/mountpoint base as per the installation guide. # How can I manage to install kernel 3.2 with a functional Speakup, since # it's broken in 3.4? Install linux-lts and configure your bootloader to use the vmlinuz-lts and initramfs-lts.img kernel and initial ramdisk. To simplify things, you may wish to remove the linux package after installing linux-lts. # There is also an article explaining how to install Arch from within an #> existing distro, but it claims to be outdated. Can anyone confirm if it # doesn't currently work? The URL is: # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_Existing_Linux You should only need to install and/or build pacman and the arch install scripts. From there, the normal installation guide should work with little to no trouble. I don't see anything in the article you linked that definitely won't work though. It definitely looks good up through building and installing pacman and configuring your base chroot. Installing arch-install-scripts will certainly make it easier to get the base up and running once pacman is installed, as you can just follow the standard installation guide once you get arch-install-scripts. ~Kyle
