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Hello! I'm also having trouble installing from the dvd, I haven't tried any of the above yet, will do now, I just thought I'd get your guy's opinion as well though!
It starts installing fine, then all of a sudden it asks for the first cd, which is wierd since they're all on the dvd! wtf? Got SuSE 9.1 by the way!
What you think? Or should I just do one of the above suggestions?
This worked awesome for me, went to the console, used the commands, and went silky smooth
# 1. as root, mount the CD
$ mount /mnt/cdrom (I had to use /media/cdrecorder)
# 2. copy the linux installer to a tmp directory
$ cp /mnt/cdrom/linux-installer.sh /tmp/.
# 3. VERY IMPORTANT! Manually create the UT2004 destination directory
# not sure why it wouldn't create the directory in the install script
# Not sure what happens if you use the default install dir; it didn't create the non-default dir
$ mkdir /mnt/hd3/ut2004
# 4. create an environment variable which points to the setup cdrom
$ export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom
# 5. everything should now be ready to start the linux install script
$ sh /tmp/linux-installer.sh
# make sure to specify the install directory as the directory made in step 3
# go get coffee ... wait ... success!
And bingo I was up and running UT2004 within a half an hour (It is 5 disks)
Heres what I ended up doing to get UT2004 to work with SUSE 9.1 Pro:
1. Open a shell
2. Change to su
3. Create a backup copy of /etc/fstab
4. Edit the current /etc/fstab and make the following changes:
Code:
change this line:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
to this:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
5. Open another shell. Use one shell to run the installer and the other to mount and umount the drive. (be sure to su in both shells.)
6. Run sh linux-installer.sh from the command line.
7. When it prompts you for the next disc open the other shell and umount the cdrom.
8. Load the next CD and then mount the cdrom.
9. Hit the "Retry" in the installation window.
10. Repeat these steps until the all the CD's are loaded.
Wow, thanks! But what I tried wasn't so complicated, and it woked perfectly!
I started a console on the dvd, typed "export SETUP_CDROM=/media/cdrom"
Then I just ran the setup from the console too, worked perfectly! And those are the only two things I did!
And I must say, it works SO much better in Linux than in Windows, it runs smoother and faster! It's so beautiful now! And I can even hear the little special effects in my rear speakers now with that OpenAL sound! I must say, I'm really impressed! Now they just have to bring out that Linux installer for Doom! Yay, can't wait!
1. Copy the installer script to your home folder or any temp folder will do. This stopped my CDROM from locking up and not ejecting for each CD.
2. If running from KDE you will need to disable the sound in KDE from the control panel otherwise no sound in game.
for all using 2.4.xx kernel look at the post from viaken:
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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)
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thatīs the answer!!! it works fine with UT2K4 and UT2K3
after you did that, you can run the installer.sh file and it works without problems..
Distribution: Suse 9.1 Pro, Suse9.2 Pro x86_64, Solaris10, Winxp64(when it isn't broken!)
Posts: 3
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Ok those having issues with the dvd version, like me, I found a solution after digging thru these posts. The installer is looking for "/mnt/cdrom" but I do not mount my cdrom dvd under /mnt any longer, it is now in /media. So I su'd and created "/mnt/cdrom" and mounted my dvd player there. Problem solved.
If you really don't want to deal with the hassle of changing and mounting CDROMS take the time and copy all the CDROMS to one directory and copy the linux installer to a separate place.
Then decide if you want to install it as a local user or for everybody.
Some people create a separate games group. Just read up on chmod and chown if this is what you want to do.
set this variable:
export export SETUP_CDROM=(Path to copied cdroms ex. /home/woopy/ut2004-files/
Run the linux installer now and you won't need to worry about the cdroms.
Depending on the user and if it can open a display, you'll get a ncurses or gtk installer. It'll ask where you want to install it and where to put the symlinks to the game.
Now you can do the following if for some reason you need to reinstall it.
--You can tar/zip/rar/p7zip it whatever
--You can make a squashfs image of it (it's what I did). Then you can mount it directly. It has a little compression; then set the above variable.
--make a iso image of it with udf extensions cause it is a DVD now. You can also burn it to DVD for later if you have that capability or mount as loopback.
--leave it alone and back it up somewhere else.
I know it seems like a pain, but installation is quick from the hard drive, and this worked like a charm for me. The installer will ask for the cd code so have it somewhere.
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