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Hello you guys^^

I think i'm still a Linux newbie but since i've found ubuntu ultimate edition i decided to completely change from windows to linux...

i've already tried to install some games with wine but they did not really work... also when i tried the tuts from wineHQ.. now i use POL and i am happy that at least trackmania nations forever is running^^

now i wanted to install gothic and gothic 2 but after the first cd has been installed the cd drive cannot be opened...

what can i do? gothic one consists of 2 cds gothic two is being delivered on three cds

is there any workaround or trick?

oh and i forgot... the gothic 2 script is not able to find my cds... even if a cd is inserted... i tried /media/cdrom and /media/cdrom0 i also made an iso and mounted it with gmount-iso but this did also not really work *sad*

can anyone help me?

greetz from germany: joe^^

For Gothic 1:
It's your os fault. I haven't got such problems. You may have to force cdrom to eject your disk.
For Gothic 2:
cd /media/mycdrom
lspost results here

on the installation of gothic one i forced to eject the cd but after the installation has been finished the script didnt recognise it and this progressbar did not stop moving for about 30 minutes... after ive been on the toilet I just closed the window and wrote my first post here...^^

root@Audiostorm:/media/cdrom0# ls
AutoRun AutoRun.inf eula.txt JoWooD Homepage.url Readme.txt
AutoRun.exe AutoRun.ini Gothic2-Setup.exe Patch Register.url
AutoRun.ico Bin Gothic2.url ReadMe-1.30.txt


if i just type /media/cdrom ls it shows me the same output...

Edited by audiocrush

Gothic 1:
I don't know how installer detects end of installation, but I did it other way, so it should be fine now.
Gothic 2:
Is your Gothic 2 an special edition? If yes then how it's called? Anyhow I fixed the script so it should accept that version.

BTW. How do you managed to eject CDROM by forcing it? I think that many users can't get through that problem.

Please don't install the game as root. To install both games you only need user rights.

Edited by NSLW

humm.. I just used the eject button in the file manager and then a window appears that wine is using the drive... under that message there is a button to kill the process and force it to eject...

i wondered that the installer was still running after that and inserted the second disk... now it continued installing from the second cd...

i am using the 1.30 version so i don't really know how it is called... i think the standard release version (no addons)

what do i have to change in the scripts that it allows me to eject the disks?

is there a possibility to change the script that way that i simply copy all the files to a new folder and it starts the installer for me?

what do i have to change in the scripts that it allows me to eject the disks?

I really don't know. I haven't got such problem

is there a possibility to change the script that way that i simply copy all the files to a new folder and it starts the installer for me?

Yes it's possible. You may want to look at AgeOfEmpires III script where copying all cds to hdd was a necessity.

hmmh what distro are u using that this thing is no problem for you?

wooh i thing I'm goin to test this :D

but where can i find the script files? i crawled me throug the pol folder in my home directory but there was only the gothic 1 script...

no tmnations and no gothic 2 script...

I'm using Fedora 12.
Script for AOE III is here There are always online. If you want install something through POL then the script is automatically downloaded.

hm ok now i solved the cd problem... but now gothic doesnt start at all... (when i'm using pol) if i try to start it manually with a right click on the gothic.exe and select start as wineblabla it runs until the menu should appear... then i get an access violation :(

(problem solved with virtual cd drives :D many of them :D e.g. fable 3 cds gothic 2 3 cds :D)

1) You may need to use NO-CD.
2) Try to assing Wine 1.1.25 to Gothic I
3) run playonlinux and then Gothic I from terminal and post results.

wait wait... r u using the 64-bit or the 32-bit version?

i already opened it on the console but as output came a message that the assigned gothic.exe file could not be found...

I'll try fedora 12... the main thing what I'm looking for is a distro where gothic runs without any issues.... everything else I can manage later x]

I'm using 32 bit version of Fedora.

I need an output and info where your game is installed. Script was written on the base of Polish version of Gothic and paths could be different.
I don't think that switching from Ubuntu to Fedora will change anything.

*/
Ultimate Edition 2.4
http://ultimateedition.info/

audiocrush@Audiostorm:~$ playonlinux
PlayOnLinux v3.7.2

Checking python :                     [ Ok ]
Running Gothic
Gothic: Zeile 5: cd: /home/audiocrush/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Gothic/drive_c/Programme/Piranha Bytes/Gothic/System: No such file or directory
wine client error:0: version mismatch 386/393.
Your wineserver binary was not upgraded correctly,
or you have an older one somewhere in your PATH.
Or maybe the wrong wineserver is still running?
/*

and you are right... the pathname was wrong... it had to be Piranha Bytes but the folder was named PiranhaBytes and the system folder should be written with a capital S...
but i changed it and the error message was rather the same:

*/
audiocrush@Audiostorm:~$ playonlinux
PlayOnLinux v3.7.2

Checking python :                     [ Ok ]
Fehler beim Anzeigen einer URL: Fehler beim Untersuchen der Datei /home/audiocrush/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Gothic/drive_c/Programme/Piranha Bytes/Gothic/System mit fstat(): No such file or directory
Running configuration of Gothic
Running Gothic
wine client error:0: version mismatch 386/393.
Your wineserver binary was not upgraded correctly,
or you have an older one somewhere in your PATH.
Or maybe the wrong wineserver is still running?
/*

every try i killed the wineserver process...

hmm oh yes it would change many things :D ubuntu ultimate is blown up with useless crap... just wanna try fedora... espacially because it is the preferred distro of the linux usergroup in my city :]

Gothic: Zeile 5: cd: /home/audiocrush/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Gothic/drive_c/Programme/Piranha Bytes/Gothic/System: No such file or directory
wine client error:0: version mismatch 386/393.
Your wineserver binary was not upgraded correctly,
or you have an older one somewhere in your PATH.
Or maybe the wrong wineserver is still running?
/*

You have to kill wineserver. It seems that it still runs.

and you are right... the pathname was wrong... it had to be Piranha Bytes but the folder was named PiranhaBytes and the system folder should be written with a capital S...
but i changed it and the error message was rather the same:

And the path is still wrong. System is already started by capital S. Can you do
cd "MYGOTHICDIRECTORY"
echo $PWD
and post results here.

/home/audiocrush/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Gothic/drive_c/Programme/PiranhaBytes/Gothic/system
so now i should correct the pathname...

but where?

if I change the folders name... could it cause errors in running gothic?
linux is case sensitive in pathnames... windows isn't... so what is it? neither windows nor linux... its wine? is wine case sensitive?

/home/audiocrush/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Gothic/drive_c/Programme/PiranhaBytes/Gothic/system
so now i should correct the pathname...

but where?

if I change the folders name... could it cause errors in running gothic?
linux is case sensitive in pathnames... windows isn't... so what is it? neither windows nor linux... its wine? is wine case sensitive?

I fixed the script. If you change path manually in ~/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/installed/Gothic then it won't cause any errors. It's only launcher for this game.