Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Chris Brannon]

> but doing this threw an 
> error, which I can't remember, but something about a non-existing alsa-utils 
> package.

Yes, that command looks fine to me.
The alsa-utils package is in the extra repository, and you shouldn't have
had any trouble installing it.
pacman should have pulled it from your chosen mirror with no complaint.
Your installation was mounted on /mnt, right?

I should really automate that part of the process, because that command
is fairly complex.

-- Chris