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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