cannot get live CD to work on ancient laptop: "K-MELEON.EXE FILE"?
Robert A. Weppner
purefog at comcast.net
Sat May 14 18:15:06 UTC 2005
I have an ancient Hitachi laptop running Win98 SE that I was going to
give away, but I have been curious about Linux for some time so I
instead downloaded your 5.04 live CD to give it a try. It wouldn't
boot, so I entered setup, and found that the system was set to boot from
the c drive, then the a drive. I COULD have changed it over to boot
from the CD-ROM, but was unclear how/if I would be able to get back to
Win98 if I did that and decided not to run the CD (or, for some reason,
it didn't work). So, instead, I booted into Win98, and "Browsed" the
CD, and tried to run the .exe file for Ubuntu. Whereupon I got the
following error message: "The K-MELEON.EXE FILE IS LINKED TO MISSING
EXPORT MFC42.DLL:6860."
So, short of trying to install the "install" disk and seeing what, if
anything, happens, do you know a fix?
Or, if I just switch the setup to boot from the CD, ought it to work,
and, if not, will I have the opportunity to go back into setup upon
reboot and change the boot from CD-ROM back to C: and then A:?
I hope this question/these questions have some plain answer. . .thanks!
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