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Date:      Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:31:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UT2004?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040402103053.18202G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040401061417.GA63077@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:26:27PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Has anyone got it installed under FreeBSD?
> > I got the demo to run and install pretty well (for some reason I can't play it 
> > in KDE, I have to drop back to twm otherwise my system hangs), but the full 
> > game doesn't install :(
> > 
> > I have tried both the DVD edition and the 6 CD version.. It doesn't appear to 
> > detect that I have mounted a new disk and so I can't get past installing the 
> > first disks worth of stuff.
> > 
> > I run the installer like so 
> > sudo /compat/linux/bin/sh /cdrom/linux-installer.sh
> > 
> > and pick /usr/local/ut2004 as the place to install it.
> > 
> > I have ktrace'd it and when I click 'Yes' on the CDROM prompt it only seems to 
> > try and open fstab and mtab. It ends up with a FreeBSD fstab 
> > and /compat/linux/etc/mtab which is a zero length file.
> 
> Is it expecting /compat/linux/etc/mtab to be updated somehow when you
> mount the new disk? 

linprocfs exports an mtab file from the kernel that's appropriate for use
as a substitute, I believe.  You can try symlinking etc/mtab to
procfs/mtab in the linux namespace.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research




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