Steve B. wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: > >>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. > > Thanks! I got everything working now. But that was a pain in the rear. > Somebody should really update the ebuild in portage.
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