Windows to Linux install

If you have Quake II installed under Windows on a different machine, you can transfer the files in
quake2\baseq2\ to your Linux system via FTP or some other mechanism. Keep in mind that the
filenames on your Linux system must be in lower case for Quake II to find them, so you may have to rename
them after the transfer. Also note that it may be necessary to delete your Windows installation after you do
this to remain in compliance with the terms of id's software license. It's not my fault if you do something
illegal.
If your Windows and Linux systems are on the same machine, you have two options: copy the files from your
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Windows partition to your Linux partition, or link to the necessary files from Linux. Both options will work
equally well. You'll just save a lot of disk space when you link instead of copy. As usual, replace
/win95/games/quake2 in the following examples with the correct path to your Windows partition and
Quake II installation.
If you want to copy the files from your Windows partition, do something like this:
cd /usr/local/games/quake2
cp −r /win95/games/quake2/baseq2 .
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To create links to your Windows Quake II files instead, do this:
cd /usr/local/games/quake2
ln −s /win95/games/quake2/baseq2 .
This second method requires that the Windows partition you're linking to be writeable by users,
which may not be appropriate for all systems. By making your Windows partition writeable, you are
giving all users the opportunity to destroy your entire Windows installation. If that's ok with you,
modify your /etc/fstab to mount the Windows partition with the options umask=002,gid=XXX,
where XXX is the group id number of the "users" group. Look in /etc/group for this information.
When fstab is updated, umount and re−mount the Windows partition and you're done.
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You're done installing the Quake II data files. Move ahead to " Installing the Linux Binaries".