[freespace2] Basic How-To

zakk zakk at timedoctor.org
Fri Jul 26 20:51:33 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 20:42, Ric James wrote:
> Apologies for the repeat, ladies & gentlemen, but my hard drive put a gun to 
> its head this morning and put itself into my misery. I need to know if anyone 
> can point me to a real-live HOWTO for installing Freespace onto my Mandrake 
> box. I'm looking for a doc that doesn't assume I know x, y, or z already, if 
> that's possible. 
>   
> Thanks much!
> 
> Ric
> ric.james at verizon.net

You need to 
1) Install freespace 2, this requires either windows or wine.
if you're using wine, it may require multiple cd-rom drives.

2) patch fs2 to the latest version

3) copy *vp files to wherever the binary of fs2 for linux is

4) run freespace2 :)

I think I got everything....
-- 
-zakk
zakk at timedoctor.org




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