Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Nick G]

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
 
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