Installing from CD

Place your Quake II CD in your CD ROM drive, and mount it:
mount −t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
If your CDROM is typically mounted elsewhere, substitute its location for /mnt/cdrom. If you're not sure
where your CDROM is mounted, please see the documentation for your particular distribution.
Full Install The simplest install method is a "full" install, which involves copying the entire contents
of your CD to your hard drive. This requires about 350 MB, and is accomplished by issuing the
following commands:
cd /usr/local/games/quake2
cp −r /mnt/cdrom/Install/Data/* .
There'll be a bunch of unnecessary Windows files hanging around that you can safely delete:
rm −f /usr/local/quake2/*.dll
rm −f /usr/local/quake2/quake2.exe
rm −f /usr/local/quake2/baseq2/gamex386.dll
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Medium Install If 450 MB is too much space for you to devote to Quake II, you can skip installing
the movie cutscenes and link to them on the CD−ROM instead. This will reduce the space
requirements to about 200 MB:
cd /usr/local/games/quake2
mkdir baseq2
cp /mnt/cdrom/Install/Data/baseq2/pak0.pak baseq2
cp −r /mnt/cdrom/Install/Data/baseq2/players baseq2
ln −s /mnt/cdrom/Install/Data/baseq2/video baseq2/video
Note that this doesn't mean you have to mount your Quake II CD every time to want to play Quake
II. If the game can't load the videos, it just won't display them.