Bwahaha! Q3 on Suse 8.0 Pro!

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Got Quake III running on Linux last night!

There may be those of you who think "So Vot! Beeg Deal!", but getting a high-performance game going in Linux isn't as simple as Windows.

I had to read the Linux Gaming FAQ and the Q3 Linux FAQ carefully in order to get the command line straight. That took a little deduction, as well as a little trial and error.

Next stop: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (as soon as I download the Linux patch from Id Software).

Linux has come a long, long way since I first started monkeying around with it almost four years ago.

If you're a PC user and are looking for a challenge, I advise you to bite into Linux. It's a lot of fun.

mh

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

[sharpfive 0]

Can you have Linux and XP on the same machine and toggle between the two?

[QuickDraw 0]

Don't Zennie use a duel boot-up on his ?

-- Hope you don't die. --

I'm fucking winning

[adamT 0]

Are you using a nvidia card? Their drivers are pretty good, except they are closed source. Getting native linux games running with nvidia hardware is a snap. I currently have Q3, unreal tournament, wolfenstine, and ut2003 on my laptop. They all run great except ut2003. If you have any problems i might be able to help.
adam

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Can you have Linux and XP on the same machine and toggle between the two?

Well...you can't really "toggle" per se. You have to shut down and reboot. It's during the reboot that you choose which OS to run. It's not hard to set up a dual boot system but have someone that knows what they are doing walk you through it.

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Can you have Linux and XP on the same machine and toggle between the two?

It should work - I haven't heard of it not working.

When I set up for dual (or multi) boot, I install the MS Win product first. Its bootloader is modified by the Linux bootloader (lilo or grub). The MS bootloader doesn't play nice, and a third-party product like System Commander is needed to overcome it if one insists on installing the Win product AFTER Linux (however, using System Commander, I've had as many as four OSs on one machine, they were all MS variants of some kind [MS-DOS, Win95, Win98, Win2k])

My Dell Pentium II 233 laptop boots between Win98 and Mandrake 7.2, and the default OS can be changed back and forth as needed.

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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Thank you, gentlemen.

[adamT 0]

Yes, you could have as many different OS as you have hard drive space for. I have LInux and XP on mine I have found it helps to have windows installed on its partition first. Installing linux first and then istalling XP can be a pain because xp will overwrite the bootblock of the harddrive. The info about the other OSs is stored on the bootblock.
adam

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Are you using a nvidia card? Their drivers are pretty good, except they are closed source. Getting native linux games running with nvidia hardware is a snap. I currently have Q3, unreal tournament, wolfenstine, and ut2003 on my laptop. They all run great except ut2003. If you have any problems i might be able to help.
adam

I am indeed using Nvidia (TNT2 AGP w/16MB), and I was astonished at how simple it was to load the drivers. They did an excellent job.

Looks like RTCW is going to be a bit more difficult to install than Q3. I've got the retail Win32 version, so I just need the Linux patch (I think!)

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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I remeber having to copy the data files over from the windows install of wolfenstine. It was kinda a pain because they were huge, it took a couple of cds.
There may be an installer now that can unpack the files right off the cd.

You can still repair your bootloader if windows over writes it. You just need boot off of a linux cd and tell lilo or grub to fix it. I don't think there is any practical limit to the number of OSs lilo or grub can boot. I think grub can boot almost all of them that are capable of running on intel.
adam

EDIT: im not a newbie any more, bitchen

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Can you have Linux and XP on the same machine and toggle between the two?

Well...you can't really "toggle" per se. You have to shut down and reboot. It's during the reboot that you choose which OS to run. It's not hard to set up a dual boot system but have someone that knows what they are doing walk you through it.

Jah, what he said. Gotta shut down and reboot.

Another way this can be done is if you are using both SCSI and IDE drive interfaces in a single system. You can change the boot order in the BIOS; that way, the OSs never even see each other, but you'll still have access to your FAT16 or FAT-32 Win partitions when you're running Linux. Handy for exchanging data.

For example, I used my laptop running Win98 to download the Nvidia Linux packages offsite, then docked the laptop to my LAN and transferred the files over to a Win partition on my main machine, then rebooted that one in Linux and installed the packages.

I could have done it more directly, but I didn't have ftp or Samba running on that particular Linux machine (I have another Linux box that acts as a file server and has Apache, Samba, etc. running on it, but this would have meant taking three steps instead of two).

"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."