RE: [Nolug] UT2K4

(assuming you have vi)
>From the command line do:

vi /etc/fstab

press "i" to edit
press "ESC" to stop editing
"CTRL w" saves
"CTRL x" to end

later

dave

> I've also came across this in the newsgroup...
>
> I spent several hours last night working on a way to install Unreal
> Tournament 2004 DVD Edition on SuSE 9.1 Pro. It had some problems, so
> here are the fixes:
>
> First, submount and the Linux installer do not play well together. It
> appears that the installer is set up to attempt to call 'mount' to
> mount drives after each CD's contents are extracted, regardless of
> whether or not you're actually installing it from a DVD or a series of
> six CD's. It also doesn't care whether or not the media is already
> mounted. So when installing from DVD you'll see a bunch of "mount
> failed: fstab shows media already mounted" errors. I guess the
> installer guesses that if it's already mounted, you'll get a harmless
> warning and can truck on.
>
> But of course SuSE 9.1 does submounting by default, which means that
> calling mount /dev/dvd will net you a big fat error code. And since
> 'mount' is returning an error code, the Linux UT2004 installer assumes
> that you don't have a disc in the drive. *sigh*
>
> The workaround is to comment out your DVD/CD drive entry in /etc/fstab
> and replace it with a conventional mount entry. For example:
> /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs
> fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>
> Should be replaced with
> /dev/dvd /media/dvd iso9660 user,ro 0 0
>
> Then things should install fine.
>
> Also the speed hacks of symlinking in your distro's libSDL and
> libopenal libraries to replace UT2004's statically linked libSDL and
> openal libraries kinda/sorta work in SuSE 9.1. Replacing
> ut2004/System/libSDL-1.2.so.0 with a symlink to
> /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 worked fine and gave me a nice speed boost,
> but replacing ut2004/System/openal.so.0 with a symlink to
> /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 caused random garbage and loud pops to
> randomly spew through my speakers. Reverting back to the openal.so.0
> that ships with UT2004 fixed the problem, and rolling your own
> openal.so.0 probably will work, too.
>
>
> To any point, if you're an advocate of Linux gaming be sure and pick
> up a copy of Unreal Tournament 2004... even if it's not exactly your
> bag. Word is that the publishers are watching the number of Linux
> clients that are connecting to servers in order to determine the
> viability of Linux as a target gaming platform. I don't believe their
> judging via retail sales (i.e. Best Buy as opposed to TuxGames), but
> instead watching server logs.
>
>
>
>
>
> But the question stll remains. how to edit the fstab file??? :-)
>
>
>
> Remember I'm new to this..
>
>
>
> Nimrod
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> Behalf
> Of Nimrod
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:37 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: [Nolug] UT2K4
>
>
>
> Ok guys,
>
>
>
> I never really asked a question .. so this is my first time.
>
> First off I'm new to the Linux world and I've just installed Suse 9.1 and
> I
> would like to install UT 2004 and I've get this message please insert the
> Play disc in the cd rom drive and click on ok. I'm installing the DVD
> version of UT 2004 so all files are on that one DVD. I've also checked the
> UT2004 forum and here is the link
> http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=3b1cf1de66a2a6b2647288
> 634bf9d23d
> <http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=3b1cf1de66a2a6b264728
> 8634bf9d23d&threadid=382671&highlight=Suse>
> &threadid=382671&highlight=Suse
>
> The guy edit his fstab file from this /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder
> subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>
> To this /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder iso9660
> ro,user,noauto,unhide,iocharset=utf8 0 0
>
> And he said it works for him. My question is how can I edit this file??
> And
> if anyone of you guys tried to install UT2004 on your linux know if this
> would work!
>
>
>
>
>
> Roland
>
> Nimrod
>
>
>
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