talking arch installation

[Jude DaShiell]

I partly used the beginner's guide on the arch wiki to do this.  
Deviations from those instructions included Chris Brannon's talking arch 
instructions and some others. I installed linux-lts since all of the 
speakup keys work with that kernel learned about on the arch-general email 
list.  I installed a separate /boot partition of 50MB which enabled 
everything finally to come up talking.  I installed syslinux as a boot 
loader and did edits on /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.  I pointed everything 
toward linux-lts rather than linux.  I had to do another edit me and 
several others found strange too.  Partitions were marked read only ro in 
syslinux.cfg and I found it necessary to change those to rw since the 
system in its boot process failed to do so even after 8 hours of leaving 
the system alone on a boot up.  Finally it makes no difference on a boot 
up how long you let the system alone, arch only starts talking after the 
enter key is hit with syslinux.  Having tried installations with both grub 
and lilo, I couldn't get either talking, so syslinux for me on arch linux 
has proven to be the way to a talking arch.  Interestingly, syslinux.cfg 
is the only configuration file needed to be configured in a syslinux 
installation.  The rest of the instructions in the beginner's guide worked 
without problems over here on an amd k8 athelon machine.  I've had good 
luck with archlinux in the past the last time it was on a disk it ran 
problem free for a year.


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