On Sunday 23 November 2003 20:54, Rowan Trau'e wrote: > Hello Chris and Chad > Thanks for your advice. Chris I tried what you suggested and it did > nothing as a command line - well nothing happened and I got no response > so I am reluctant to go down that line of operation.
In the world of Unix, programs are typically silent by default. If you got no response then this probably means _something_ happened. No output is almost always a good sign. The program will only speak up if something went wrong :-) > Chad, I tried what you wrote (after finally getting a xterm to work - > maybe I was doing it wrong as it was my first time) and I got this reply > after inputting your first line of command:- > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > and so for another 10 lines or so > This is way out of my league so I closed xterm. It looks like you're talking about running vi on your /etc/fstab file. vi is a text editor. It can be particularly tricky to use if you haven't used it before. I'd suggest you use a text editing application you're familiar with. If you don't have a favourite text editor, now is the time to aquire one ;-) Try 'kwrite' if you have KDE installed, it's quite similar to windows notepad. Then just open the file /etc/fstab with your editor of choice (it's just a text file) and make the changes originally described. Cheers, Gareth > > What does it all mean or would you prefer to contact me off-list via > phone to help me ? Your decision. > > Rowan > > On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 14:21, Chad wrote: > > Ok then This is abit messy and I'm sure there's easier ways of doing it > > but it's fairly quick and will allow you to get the game up and running > > quickly. Open a terminal like xterm or konsole > > run su > > > > >then > > > the first command just makes a backup > > > > cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.old > > vi /etc/fstab > > > > > comment out the line like this > > > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,............ > > > > >to > > > > #none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,................. > > > > >save the change. Logout and restart the computer. > > >Stick the CD in the drive then in a terminal as root (su) > > > > mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom > > > > >run the install program when it asks for the next disk > > > > umount /mnt/cdrom > > > > >change disk > > > > mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom > > > > >When finished > > > > vi /etc/fstab > > > > >remove the # save and restart. > > > > The game should now work though you'll need to add a link to the menu or > > desktop. The command to run the game from command line should be some > > thing like > > ut2003 > > Instead of vi other text editors can be used Kate, emacs or gedit are > > best though I'd recomend kate if in kde gedit in Gnome. Also you'll need > > the ATI graphics drivers installed They can be downloaded from ATI's > > website. > > > > As for Mandrake 9.2 it's abit faster overall, Gnome 2.4 is nicer than the > > old version in 9.1 as is Openoffice 1.1 over mdk9.1's version. Other than > > that theres been a few graphical changes Mandrakes Galaxy theme has some > > improvements and drak tools are abit better. Down side is theres alot of > > updates for it and some problems. > > > > Chad > > > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:59, Rowan Trau'e wrote: > > > Hello Chad > > > > > > I am currently running Mandrake 9.1 and I am considering installing > > > 9.2. > > > I hope that the disabling of supermount is easy. > > > > > > Can anyone tell me if Mandrake 9.2 is any reasonable advance over 9.1 ? > > > I won't bother to upgrade if there isn't much change. > > > > > > Rowan > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 22:57, Chad wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > What distro are you runing? As supermount can cause problems with > > > > some CD binary installation programs. If Mandrake or Gentoo gaming > > > > kernel you may have to disable supermount and manually mount the CD. > > > > If you are running one of those distros or one of the others that > > > > uses Supermount let me know and I'll provide instructions for > > > > disabling supermount so you can install the game then renable it. > > > > > > > > Chad
