supermount is a utility that automatically mounts/umounts your drives when you put in/take out a cd. needless to say, it has flaws, and it can confuse cd detection.

Supermount: Its used for cdroms, floppy's, usb sticks.. basically anything that can be removed anytime. What happens now is that supermount auto mounts it on insert. The unmount I'm not sure about.

Magicdef: The same as supermount, it now also searches for an appropriate app to use the device in. IE: Insert a audio cd, it launches Kscd.

I did get around the ut2004 problem. Just click unmount on the cdrom icon on your desktop and insert the next cd. All should work fine.

Ok, here is what I did to install the game:
note: this takes alot of hd space!

Copy all six disks into one single folder on your hard disk,
eg. for the first disk.
then repeat the last two steps for the 5 remaining disks.
You will of course have to un-mount the disk before hand.
eg. for unmounting
When all of the copying is done issue the following command:
then:
once the install is done, issue the following comand to reclaim your HD space
This worked for me, good luck all.
PS. Great Game!

I tried to install UT04 but when i ran the installer the md5 check sums didnt match and no more install. I have disl 1 in, I don't know if I should try one of the others. From everything that I read it should install from cd1. I'm using fedora core 1

hi, I'm trying to install the DVD version of UT2004, but I can't read the disk at all. Any ideas?

for the suse 9.1 crowd, two thing to get this one going. supermount isnt as much of a problem, but the main thing is the "$export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom" or whatever the path to your cdrecorder is, and it was smoother when done command line. that actually worked for me well. i also ran the installer from the hard disk. CD are in the right order and other than the installer you dont even need cd 1. As of right now im watching the installer go wandering through its steps. i hope to have things up and plying within the next 30 min.

whee
Yay Epic

Stephen

this allows you rto open a second window and eject the drive...
in suse it is as follows(if your cd drive is /media/cdrom)

as root:
cd /media
cdrom/linux-installer.sh

Thanks to all the ones who helped me install UT2k4!

i have the dvd copied to the hard drive, /userdir/ut2k4/ with dirs cd1, cd2, cd3, cd4, cd5, and cd6 all under that dir.. now, with windows it installs just fine with this method.. but with the linux-installer.sh it doesn't.. so i'm wondering what i have to do to make it work.

my earlier post will probably be the same thing for a dvd as linux doesnt really care it just heads for the files when instructed. unless they did something silly and used an installer that was not right for the dvd. (my post from earlier)

"for the suse 9.1 crowd, two thing to get this one going. supermount isnt as much of a problem, but the main thing is the "$export SETUP_CDROM=/mnt/cdrom" or whatever the path to your cdrecorder is, and it was smoother when done command line. that actually worked for me well. i also ran the installer from the hard disk. CD are in the right order and other than the installer you dont even need cd 1. As of right now im watching the installer go wandering through its steps. i hope to have things up and plying within the next 30 min."

I know nothing of magicdef or supermount, but try these steps:

Insert the cd with the installation script on it, for ut2003 this was cd3, don't know what it is for ut2004. Now start a terminal (Programs->System->Terminal) and type the following (on line per command, that means push enter after you type each line, and don't type the quotes):

"su -l"
(give your superuser/root password here)
"/mnt/cdrom/linux-install.sh"

Now open another terminal and log in as root by typing the following:

"su -l"

It will ask for a password, after you supply it, then wait until the install asks for the second cd, when it does, type as root (second terminal, logged in as root):

"eject cdrom"

Now place the second cdrom in the drive, insert it, and wait a few seconds until it mounts, then click the "Ok" button on the installer to tell it the the cd is inserted. If the install has 3 cd's then just do the above steps to eject and insert the third one.

One thing you never want to do while installing a game like this is to be in the cdrom directory ("/mnt/cdrom", "/mnt/cdrom1/", etc...) when executing the install script. The reason you don't want to do this is because you wont be able to get the cd ejected when you need to insert the next one. This happens because you will be in the cdrom directory, and to Linux that means the drive busy, so it wont eject. Thats why we run it from outside the cdrom directory by typing "/mnt/cdrom/linux-install.sh"

I don't know about setting "SETUP_CDROM", if that works, that would be great to know for next time I install ut2003 (renaming /dev/fd0 and renaming the mount command isn't to my taste...).

You must also be superuser, or root to run the install script by the way.

Hope that works (not that I really said anything the others hadn't)

If you don't have automount, and so your cds don't automatically mount when you insert them, type the following as root everytime you insert a cd:

"mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"

Cya

Thanks to all the suggestions here, I finally got the DVD to install on MDK 10.

Quick recap of what I did to get it installed (YMMV)

# 1. as root, mount the DVD
$ mount /mnt/cdrom

# 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!

This method also works installing from a loopback mounted ISO DVD image (allowed me to install on a Linux box with no DVD drive after having made a backup image of my UT2004 DVD on my Windows box)
# 1. Alternate step 1 to mount DVD ISO image
$ mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/ut2004_backup.iso /mnt/cdrom

-- Tom

Is the script too stupid to realzie that its all on the same disk???

I even tried copying it to the hard drive. And it just says insert play disk, and im like dumbass its on the dvd go look, even tried burning cds with teh data on them, it no go.

Easiest way to fix all your problems is most likely to change out of the cdrom directory from which you're running the installer and then put the 2nd cd in. Make sure to unmount and mount again if it doesn't automatically.

I assume that should work with the DVD as well then?