Well, my demo of the Linux Gamers Live DVD didn’t go so well. My crappy old computer did not perform very well, so we ended up borrowing someone’s laptop to perform the demo. Wasn’t too exciting. I just brought up each game on the disk and played them for a bit. We also discussed some other Linux-friendly gaming.
After that FAIL, I needed some success. I finally got some relief with the ReciPants database issue. The problem seems to be with my method for transferring the database from the old server to the new. Here’s a brief synopsis of what I did to get it to work:
Migrated from the old server (with MySQL 3.23) to a virtual machine running CentOS 3 (also with MySQL 3.23).
On the old server:
- Exported the database with the following command (no extra options used, my mistake was exporting with —opt and/or —add-drop-tables):
mysqldump -u root -p ReciPants > ReciPants-database.sql
On the “new” server:
- Set up ReciPants v1.2 on the new server, per the Web site instructions — including running the SQL scripts tables-mysql.sql and ref_data.sql.
- Once I confirmed that worked OK, restored the data from the old
server with the following command (the -f is necessary, as there is a
non-critical error early on that will halt the process):
mysql -u root -p -f ReciPants < ReciPants-database.sql
Again, I need to test the above method on MySQL 5.x, but I believe it will work just fine.