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I've already checked the entire SDL quake topic and followed through with installing it, but it seems to just install to default memory.

Also I have cloned the OS and such on the internal card (512 mb), my external card is 8 GB. I own the Quake CD and have the .PAK files ready to transfer.

Ok, so I grabbed the mmc1 .deb (I renamed it to sdlquake.deb for easy typing) which as far as I understand was required for a manual install, and I tried something like:

dpkg -i sdlquake.deb --instdir=/media/mmc1/Quake

but it didn't install to the external card. I found it in the main memory -- now if I move it to my external card, I can't run the sdquake binary (it's highlighted green in emelFM2 file manager IF it's in the default /home folder or whatever -- else the file name is black when the whole install is moved to external card. (From what I understand/remember, in emelFM2, green means it can be executed, and from opening a green file it runs)

I may have gotten the dpkg wrong in this post, I'm sure I got it right in console, and yes I had root.

All installers install the executable to internal memory (or whatever filesystem your booting off of).

The mmc1 and mmc2 installers only change the start script to look for data files on the respective mmc locations.

You cant copy an executable to a FAT formatted filesystem and execute it since that filesystem is mounted noexec. The only alternative i offer is my iso appliance which packs all files into an iso which you can store on a FAT filesystem, and execute like a rom but this is harder to copy pak files into and configure autoexec since you have to repack the ISO.

You can also create an ext2 filesystem which you can run programs off of, store that ext2 fs as file on fat mmc and mount it but when you reboot you'll need to remount.

Oh yea, and if your booting of mmc and want the data files to go there then install the ready2run version and put paks into /usr/lib/sdlquake

Ok, so where would I put id1/ and pak files on the external card, if the script is going to look there?

in a quake directory located at the root of the respective mmc card.

/media/mmc1/quake/id1 or
/media/mmc2/quake/id1

All my installers are the same (except ready2run includes data) except for the startup scripts :
/usr/bin/sdlquakepxd
/usr/bin/botmatchpxd (if you install botmatch mod)

pretty much just edit the /usr/bin/sdlquakepxd script to look for data files wherever you put them... i tried to make it easy so users didnt need to do any of that, but just edit that script yourself so theres no misunderstood magic going on.

Thanks a lot, looks clear enough.

--edit--

Ok it's all working. I forgot it's "id1" not "id" as you put