dedicated server on linux

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:26 am

thats odd because my hardrive is 10gigs so those numbers might be messed up?
but i could be mistaken, im bad with numbers

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:33 am

Some page wrote:download rawrite2.exe and sbm.bin off the internet (do a search) Once you have these files, put them both in the same folder. Get a blank floppy, put it in the floppy drive, and then run rawrite2.exe. Take the floppy that this program creates, put it in the computer you are installing the OS on, and turn it on. Make sure your bios is booting to floppy. A menu will come up, select CD-rom, hit enter, and walla, you will boot your CD.

The CD, of course, is any CD-based distribution you like. Full thread here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75367.html

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:41 am

great one more thing, what is the command to reformat my HD.

Edit: must this be done on a windows pc since it has a .exe extension?

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:50 am

Those instructions must be followed on a windows pc, yes. When you run the installer CD, it will have the stuff you need to reformat your hard drive, with a nice GUI interface, usually.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:56 am

thanks
I'll set up the cd tonight, and install it thursday morning.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:58 am

oh last thing, what linux distro has been known to run an arma server?

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:33 am

http://wiki.armagetronad.net/index.php? ... eld_Report

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:03 pm

-=King Crab=- wrote:thats odd because my hardrive is 10gigs so those numbers might be messed up?
but i could be mistaken, im bad with numbers

start a console and do "df -kv". Post the results here.

It might be that you checked the wrong partition, or that you allocated lots of space for other OS, or many other things.

-ph

Post by **Lucifer** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:26 pm

For folks that don't need a gui on their server, I just installed Ubuntu Server Edition, and comparing it subjectively to the old Gentoo server, it appears to run like 10x faster. (Of course, that means I no longer have a server with a gui, heh)

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:02 pm

Its 10 gigs, and I got it to boot from the cd drives now however I was having porblems with ubuntu so I'm going to try debian now

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:50 pm

Oh and a reformat command would be nice.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:29 am

After you repartition with fdisk or cfdisk, there are various mkfs.<fstype> commands that can be run.

Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:32 am

I'm going to have to recommend Ubuntu Server Edition. Did I already mention that?

Installing an arma server is pretty easy. Install USE, do "apt-get install libxml2" (to make sure it's there, it was for me). Then from your desktop copy your downloaded armagetronad-dedicated autopackage. Install from there, run it.

It seems a little jumpy running from the autopackage, which I remember being the case. When I get my server able to build software again (which I have to to restore master server #2) I'll rebuild the game server and see how that goes.

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:06 pm

Lucifer wrote:Then from your desktop copy your downloaded armagetronad-dedicated autopackage. Install from there, run it.

You completly lost me there, do i keep both distros?

I

lucifer wrote:t seems a little jumpy running from the autopackage, which I remember being the case. When I get my server able to build software again (which I have to to restore master server #2) I'll rebuild the game server and see how that goes.

DOes that mean that it will be laggy?

-=King Crab=- · Post by **-=King Crab=-** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:44 am

I'm extremely sorry for dragging this on for such a long time.

I tried to download Ubuntu but I could not get it to function properly. So I went with Debian. I installed the autopackage however when I try to install tron I get the error message
"An unkown error has occured (exit status 15)"
Does any one know how to solve this problem?