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