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Steve B. wrote: |
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> On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: |
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> |
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>>Steve B. wrote: |
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>>>Hey everybody, |
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>>> |
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>>> This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this |
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>>>one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom |
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>>>(/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to |
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>>>umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has |
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>>>success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data |
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>>>from CD1 six times. |
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>>> |
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>>>This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on |
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>>>linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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>>Unfortunately, the ebuild for ut2004 is very brain dead about that. |
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>>Curiously, it USED to do exactly what you said: let you swap CD's. |
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>>The only way I figured out how to accomplish the install from CD's was |
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>>to copy every single CD to the hard disk, which obviously takes up a lot |
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>>of space and time. |
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>>Like so: |
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>>rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 1 |
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>>rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 2 |
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>>And so on through 6. 6 is the disk labeled install disk, I think. Then |
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>>set CD_ROOT_1=/full/path/to/1 CD_ROOT_2=/full/path/to/2 CD_ROOT_.... |
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>>emerge ut2004 |
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>>Feel free to use cp, i prefer to use rsync. |
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>>The next problem you will run into (or it might come before you even get |
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>>to the CD's, i forget) is that portage will try to download various |
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>>large files from 3dgamers mirrors. Almost all of which time out or are |
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>>unreachable, or uselessly slow. I've found that I have to go to google |
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>>and look for the filename, find it somewhere else, save it to |
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>>/usr/portage/distfiles and home the md5sums match. Make sure the |
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>>filename is as portage expects it too, including case. |
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>>There are bugs open about all of these issues, but they just haven't |
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>>been solved yet. |
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>>ut2004 is one of the most irritating peices of software to install on |
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>>gentoo, especially from CD's, thanks to all of this. |
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> Thanks! I got everything working now. But that was a pain in the rear. |
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> Somebody should really update the ebuild in portage. |
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Indeed... :) |
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