How to enter the CD key for UT2003

[JezzerP]

OK, recently tried to install UT2003 on my RedHat 8 box. I have the original CDs and everything seemed to go OK, if a little slowly:rolleyes: At the end of the installation the script ask you to enter the CD key twice which I duely did, but in lower case. When I can to start the game, the UT2003 splash screen flashed up briefly but it then crashed back to the desktop. The gist of the error thrown-up in the console said that my CD key was incorrect and that I'd have to reinstall. The number was definitely correct, but should I have entered it all in upper case? I have tried this in another Linux forum and a few people have the same problem but no one seems to have an answer. Anyone any ideas?:)

thanks

[razor_01]

I entered the CD key in upper case without any problems.

[bwkaz]

I don't remember which case I used, but it was probably whatever case was in the manual. Trained by C, I guess... :p

I thought there was a text file that held your CD key, somewhere under wherever you installed UT2k3. However, it seems to not exist on my system, which is really strange...

Maybe do a recursive grep for your CD key (in whatever case you used) to find out which file it's in? Something like grep -r your_cd_key /usr/local/games/ut2003/* perhaps?

[TheGimp]

/path/to/ut2003/System/cdkey
it's a plain text file

[JezzerP]

Thanks guys....I've been moving my Red Hat installation to a new HDD recently and haven't had time to try UT2003 again. Someone in another forum mentioned the CD-key config file, but when he altered his nothing changed. I'll try upper case when I install again and see what happens.