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Topic: got a cd-burner? (was: CR/LF problems?) (Read 17304 times)
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miri
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Hi!
I just wanted to say that it's a great idea to make a bootable cd with UQM that I can carry around. I tried it though and it didn't work for me: right after it says "Loading initrd.lrd................" it reboots my machine.
Here's some info on my machine.
AMD K6-2 300mhz
192mb ram
one cd-rom drive (lite-on 48x24x48x)
two hard drives, 4gb seagates both
Great work though, I'm sure this is only marginal !
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Nic.
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*bump* I have made a new CD image for the 0.3 alpha, available for download here:
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http://www.submedia.net/uqm/uqm.iso.gz
Thanks to the new features allowing for the content to be placed inside ZIP files, this one loads pretty quickly compared to 0.2, and has much greater stability. Other than that, it is basically identical to the 0.2 CD image.
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Dammit! Two reasons:
1. I haven't read this part of the technical issues before (i seldom look here, mostly in general discussion)
2. I'm at the wrong computer right now. But I'll make sure to burn it before friday and test it over the next week.
I hope to remember to tell you in oneandahalf week how it went on my portable and the desktop.
But i do think your project is absolutly great!!
Just the idea of not having to install anything (especially after 1.0) and just play away is more than enough for me to support your work!
Go for it, Nic.!
BTW: I'm windows-user. Does the .gz file needs to be unpacked? Can either WinZip or WinRAR handle that? I know how to burn iso-files, but i do not know if .gz is a Linux-only filetype.
Thanks for your work Nic.!
And big thanks to all other coders, remixers and....
Edit: Do you plan a complete version after release 1.0 with the remixes and other stuff available at that time to make it one big 650 MB iso? It would make it just sweeter for me! No real need for it, but just dreaming.... Thanks anyway!
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« Last Edit: September 24, 2003, 05:39:16 pm by Krulle »
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Thanks Novus!
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Nic.
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Yes, WinZip should know what to do with gzip files, but if for some reason it doesn't (or you don't want to get WinZip) you can download gzip for win32 here:
http://www.gzip.org/#exe
...and to answer your question, yes I intend to make a "full" CD image once I get the bugs shaken out. Â Making people download hundreds of megs at this point for something that might not work at all is a wee bit premature.. Â 
Somewhat Related to the Topic at Hand: I'm beginning to consider moving away from the stock kernel.org Linux kernels for the CD and using one from Debian, SuSE or RedHat instead. Â The stock kernel.org tree has quite nice hardware support, but there are reports of machines not being able to find their keyboards with the kernel I've built, and the sheer volume of patches in RedHat's kernel distribution alone makes me think that I'd have better chances of seeing "full coverage" if I went with them (or another vendor) instead.
For the "large Linux shop" crowd: of all the 2.4.x kernels out there, which has had the best support for weird hardware that you've seen?
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« Last Edit: September 24, 2003, 10:18:35 pm by Nic. »
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Another thank you, Nic..
I understood why you released small images at first.
Re. "full version": It has just been a question. Thanks for answering that one as well.
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« Last Edit: September 24, 2003, 07:47:57 pm by Krulle »
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I'm one of the ones with a keyboard detection probem. Just wanted to report that it is still there in the 0.3 version.
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Tried it, got an error message:
"gunzip: uqm.iso.gz: not in gzip format"
I'm trying a new d/l to test again...
Edit: How big is the file? IE (6.0.2600) started a 12.8 MB d/l and ended up with a 18.7 MB file. Normally i use Mozilla, but it's not installed on this PC (and it never will, since this is not mine).
Edit: The errormessage remains...
I'll just burn it without decompression (by just renaming and removing .gz)
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« Last Edit: September 25, 2003, 09:46:12 pm by Krulle »
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Cool it worked!!!!
Either it was MS IE or your provider has a script running. I simply truncated the filename to uqm.iso and burned that as an iso with Nero5.0 and the CD worked. Keyboard detection and sound is fine!
Lovely.
Again: Thanks Nic.!
The more difficult PCs will be tested during next week.
CU,
Martin
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To clarify: next week i'll be on trip w/o INetconnection. But being able to test several computers. I'll post during the week after next week.... (Going on route with several friends and Portable PCs).
Have a beautiful weeken, a successful week and another nice weekend!
Martin
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Nic.
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1 system did not boot (Intel Celeron II 333 MHz, Award Modular BIOS v. 4.51PG)
Errormessage follows:
The best part about that is that I know you had to type all of that in by hand. Now THAT'S dedication. 
From what I can infer, the system got enough of itself booted to try and finish loading its data from the CD-ROM, but it couldn't find the CD-ROM and freaked. This computer wouldn't happen to have SCSI disks on it, would it? Putting SCSI disks on a Celeron is kindof like putting nitrous tanks on a Geo Metro, so I'm skeptical, but if the booting CD-ROM wasn't an IDE drive and/or didn't speak ATAPI, the bootscripts wouldn't know what to do. Sorry, but I only have IDE to test with, so that's all I can "support" right now. 
But what to do with this console i do not know... (Sorry, this is basically my first linux-contact...
Not much to see there, anyhow. It's a pretty "stripped down" Linux system; wanted to keep all the resources I could free for UQM.
But saves are lost after reboot (perhaps in the next version? fighting the Sa-Matra is hard to reach without pause).
After 6 or 7 hours (if in pause or speech or continued play does not matter) system crashes. Last time it happened when entering a starsystem by leaving hyperspace. That's when i stopped playing this version (although it is great to play where i want!).
- Saves are not stored permanently because I have no guraranteed place to put them. Linux can write to floppies and harddisks formatted with FAT32, but it cannot write to NTFS yet (due to lack of specs from Microsoft) Since floppies are becoming rare on PCs these days, and NTFS filesystems are becoming less rare, I'm in a tough spot, and have no good ideas. Some bad ones I've thought of include:
- Making a 1MB Minix partition on the first HDD found that can hold it, and stash the games there (risk trashing your entire HDD for UQM? whoo!)
- Include network support, and upload the savegames to a central repository. This would involve including support for every brand of network card, modem configuration, ISDN card, CSU/DSU cards, etc. and having a highly-available server for uploads at the ready. It would likely "not work" more often than it "worked", and wouldn't be worth the effort at all considering the limited audience
- "just trying it", i.e., looking for a good place to write, and bailing out (with a warning that saves aren't persistent) if none is found. This is likely the best option, but I'm stuck on figuring a way to do it that's "unobtrusive" and happens fairly quickly (the CD-ROM already takes a bit longer than I would like to bring the game up)
- The whole system crashes, or just the game? If it was just the game, did it restart automagically? If it was the whole system, did it just lock up, or did you get nasty errors onscreen?
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The best part about that is that I know you had to type all of that in by hand. Â Now THAT'S dedication. Â
This computer wouldn't happen to have SCSI disks on it, would it? Â Putting SCSI disks on a Celeron is kindof like putting nitrous tanks on a Geo Metro, so I'm skeptical, but if the booting CD-ROM wasn't an IDE drive and/or didn't speak ATAPI, the bootscripts wouldn't know what to do. Â Sorry, but I only have IDE to test with, so that's all I can "support" right now.
Not much to see there, anyhow. Â It's a pretty "stripped down" Linux system; wanted to keep all the resources I could free for UQM. Â
Regarding saves: i understand your concerns and the trouble implementing it before you reach a better testing version (this one is still one of the first after all...) But floppies are seeing  what is standing here still on most systems, even new ones. Your Linux does still have minimal USB support? You could try implementing USB-memorystick or USB-Zip-drives or similar... Nearly everyone of my friends owns at least a USBmemorystick. Most even own external USB CD-ROM-Burners or ZIPs.
Regarding crash: The system freezes with sound skipping (repeats loop every 12 to 15 seconds). Game does not miraciously restart (it does so when exiting, as you already mentioned some posts before) but with a restart saves are still there, that would be no problem. The system even hangs if i exit the game every oneandahalf hours and reload. (Note: all this counts for my mobile only, on the other systems the people are mostly killing each other (Edit: to clarify: Doom and other games like that), they stopped meleeing after they've seen Timewarp. They do prefer Timewarps' melee (mostly thanks to the graphics, some even like the weird ships offered there).
Greetings,
Martin
PS: Until the first crash I've sold the egg-case fragments for a shiny new mauler, and were on my way to get hold of the bomb, afterwards i mostly paused the game and waited six hours and continued then. This lead mostly nowhere, but the crash remained....
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