In my experience, I'm fairly certain that an (unpatched at least) UT will
crash if you try to run it from a read-only drive. How have you got the
demo installed?

> I am completely new to Linux, I'm afraid, and so I have to ask for help
> doing
> something which I imagine is very simple, sorry if this is a tediously
> simple
> question.
>
> I wish to run the demo of Unreal Tournament on my laptop, to run
> under Dyne:bolic, if I can. The reason for this is that I have an XBox,
> and
> Unreal Tournament (which is my favourite PC game) is not available on
> the XBox, but you can run Linux (but not Windows) on the XBox. UT is
> available for both Linux and Windows, and so I thought I'd try to run
> UT (Linux) on the XBox.
>
> But since I have no Linux knowledge whatsoever, I thought it would
> make more sense to get UT running under Linux on my laptop (so that I
> know exactly what and how needs to be done for Linux to run UT)
> and then I'll try to apply what I've learnt to the XBox to get UT running
> on there. I imagine that the XBox might pose a problem, as it's not too
> powerful; it's fast enough (733MHz), but it only has 64MB of memory
> (shared with the video RAM), and I don't think any XBox Linux has
> hardware graphics drivers. The XBox CPU will be fast enough I imagine
> (UT (Windows) ran fine on my old P1-233MHz in 2000, and is great on
> my P3-700MHz laptop now), and UT has a (very good, actually) software
> mode, so the lack of a hardware 3D mode shouldn't hurt, but the memory
> might be a concern, although since I'm not going to be using it online, or
> connected to other XBoxes, memory won't be needed for networking.
> I just want to play the standalone game against bots.
>
> I don't have the Linux version of UT, but from what I understand, you
> just need the Windows version of UT (Game of the Year Edition), which
> I have, and the Linux installer, from:
>
> http://official.beyondunreal.com/dl.php/official/ut/ut-install-436-goty.run
>
> though since I cannot yet use Linux, I thought I'd simplify things by
> trying the native Linux UT demo, available from:
>
> http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/official/ut/utdemo-linux-x86-
> 348.tar.gz
>
> But when I boot from Dyne:bolic (1.41, as I wanted to use the XBox
> compatible version)
> onto my laptop, although Linux seems to work (as far as I can tell, I can
> open the file explorer
> and stuff via Linux's desktop), when I start the UT demo, I get the UT
> splash screen (with
> a penguin on it), then the splash screen disappears, but nothing else
> happens, or seems to have
> happened. The UT demo (Linux) seems to have exited, as I can still use the
> Linux desktop, which
> hasn't changed, but UT hasn't started. I can re-run the demo and the
> splash
> screen appears and
> disappeares again.
>
> Help! If anyone can spare the time, please try to get the demo working,
> and
> if so, then please
> let me know step by step (I'm a complete beginner, please remember) what
> you
> did.
>
> Thanks for any answers.
>
>
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