Installing Unreal Tournament 2004
 

Hello,
I bought Unreal Tournament 2004; not for the price, but the fact that it is a awesome game. Before with 2003 I was able to install it on my Red Hat partition, but could never get the game to run. Now that I have 2004... and since it comes with a Linux installer you would think that it would be easier to install... no. For some reason when it asks to mount the second cd, and I mount the cdrom... nothing happens... I am wondering if anyone knows the proper command that I am missing to get this great game to run on my linux OS. I am running Mandrake 9.2. The video card drivers I believe are correct, but I will hand the preformance aspect of the game later... Just need to get it installed.


Thanks


Shadzilla

Ive never tried to install UT on linux before so im not too sure about that, but did you unmount the cdrom before you remounted it? Ive had some troubles with that before, and it drove me crazy because it wouldn't unmount.

I haven't bought UT2K4 already but I did buy UT2K3 and there were some installing issues you had to follow for it to work. So, first step was to open a console and to set an environment variable to make the installer know where it has to find the CD/DVD-ROM Source Drive. This could be done with the following command line :
$export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom
(don't type the '$' lol, it's just to make understand it's a command line)
where /mnt/cdrom is the path to your cd or dvd drive.
My guess is that we are in front of the same issue here and that you have to do the same to make ut2K4 installed on your linux box. I'll go and get ut2k4 soon and I'll be able to test it and I'll confirm the installation procedure so please be patient for a few days or try what I've posted here :) Cya

Instructions for installing UT2004 under Linux with mount problems...

Copy the Linux installer to the hard drive.

Unmount the CD-ROM, but leave Disk one in the drive... (the installer will self-mount the disk)

Su to root and use the the file manager of your choice to start the installer (to install the game as root, else you can install the the user directory).

Use the drive Icon on the decktop (in KDE for example) to eject the disk. Do not MOUNT the new disk, just close the door and respond to the installer's request for the disk change.

Repeat for each new requested disk...

Whalla,... UT2004 installed and 5.5 GB less of disk space...

I followed you instructions, and nothing happens... I know with the UT2K3 that the disc were in a reverse order to get it to work. For some reason it seems that once the door is closed it doesn't pick up that there is another cd in the drive.


Thanks for the help... and suggestions?


Shadzilla

I'm having the same problem. And I don't have KDE, so I can't eject it via the desktop icon. :P

I copied the installer to the hard drive..started it, it automatically mounted the install cd and installed what was on it, then asked me to insert CD2. I did, the cd drive spun, it keeps asking to insert CD2. If I mount it manually, it asks me to mount CD2. o.o

It can't be a bad burn, can it? It installed fine in Windows...

But I'd really rather not reboot just to play this game, especially when it has a Linux installer.

I don't think that its the discs that are bad, but there has to be something else... I will try reversing the order that the cd's come in. I love UT2004 and if I can get this game to run in Linux... My Window$ side will get boot less.... :)

when anyone installed ut2003, they had to disable supermount. are you sure supermount is disabled? if it isnt, disable it. you can check in the mandrake control center.

Hey,...

I'm only telling you what worked for me...

When you insert the new disk,... are you waiting for the CD-ROM light to stay on steady???

Also, as LavaDevil said, disable supermount. I don't think SuSE uses it and that may be why I was able to do it that way.

Yep, waited for the drive to catch up. And I didn't install supermount. Honestly I'm not sure how you would in Gentoo. But I'm also a n00b. lol

i have just installed ut2k4 under the mdk 9.2 (thx to this forum ^^)
what i did :
(all in a console)

-> disable the supermount with $supermount -i disable (you must be as root)
-> mount the cd with the installer as your user
-> export the setup -> $export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom (you must be in a writable directory like your personnal folder)
-> run the installer (always in your personnal folder) with $sh /mnt/cdrom/linux-installer
-> start install
-> unmount cdrom, mount cd2

and it will work (normaly)

Re: Installing Unreal Tournament 2004
 

I've been having the same problem. I saw in another forum that it won't recognize the second cd without Joliet support in the kernel. (under File Systems ---> ISO 9660 CDROM file system support, Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions)

I forgot to compile it in my current kernel. Using this as an excuse to try out 2.6.

I'll edit this post once I get done and test it.

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I had troubles getting the nvidia drivers to work in 2.6 (all I got when I 'startx' was a screen of garbage characters), so I put Joliet support on my current (2.4.25) and it's installing! Hope this works for you.

Ok what you need to do is "cd /"

then as root type "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"

then type "sh /mnt/cdrom install.sh" (where install.sh is the name of install file)

just make sure when you mount it and or after, not to be in the directory.

That is how I solved it.

Ok.. everyone uses supermount... I have mdk10.. it uses magicdef. what now?

what is supermount ? never heard of it