Gamer swaping distros

[Zeroedout]

Hello, I plan on switching from Ubuntu to Gentoo, and I have 3 games installed that I activly play. They are ut2004, quake4, and Never Winter Nights. I assume taking the ~/.[game] folder should be 100% okay, and not cause any problems, however, I do not want to install these games again. So copying the /usr/local/games/ut2004 /quake4 and /nwn folders to a backup disk, and then into gentoo should work also, but the problem is how can I get the package manager to create the links in /usr/bin for the games and the mods for ut2004? If I emerge ut2004, can I get the install process to continue without the cd (same question for quake4 and nwn)? Also, for gentoo standards, are games installed to /usr/local/games/[game] or is it done in /opt? I really do not want to go through installing the games from the cds again as it is going to be a bitch to find all the cds and the cd-keys.

On a partially related matter, what is the best filesystem to use for gaming. I know ext3 is definatly not the choice, so by searching through the forums, I've narrowed it down to reiser4 or xfs. I wanted to stay away from Reiser4 as it constantly uses some CPU power (or was that only reiserfs3?). I couldn't care less about partition shrinking/resizing as I have no need for it. So, in your opinion, reiser4 or xfs for a machine strictly used for gaming (and porn, porn really sucks on an older laptop). Thanks to all that reply.

[ChristyMcJesus]

Probably easiest to make the symlinks yourself.

[PaulBredbury]

can I get the install process to continue without the cd

Nope.

Also, for gentoo standards, are games installed to /usr/local/games/[game] or is it done in /opt?

emerge installs binaries into /opt as the default.

The cd key for UT2004 is in its System/cdkey file.

There's nothing wrong with ext3, it can be optimized.

[geeman2.0]

It's probably best to reinstall using an ebuild because two years from now you'll forget you installed it manually, which leads to all kinds of frustrations.