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I downloaded patch.pl, and placed it on a DOS-formatted floppy. However, I can't boot from CD ROM with this machine.
I boot from floppy, and at the splash screen, press F1. Then I remove the boot install disk, and place in the DOS disk with patch.pl on it.
At the boot: prompt, I enter "text patch" and it gives me an error messsage.
I think that the patch.pl needs to fo onto the boot floppy, but can't copy it onto it using Windows. Is there a DOS command to copy the file onto the Linux boot floppy?
Try typing in "patch" or "patch.pl". You should put the patch file on whatever floppy is in the drive when the installer is loading. It looks for it when the little blue box comes up and says something like 'loading program into memory'. See if it looks for the file, the floppy light comes on, when the program starts to load. If it does and you get the error then it's looking for the wrong file or something else is wrong. Check to make sure it is named correctly and there is only one copy there.
I boot from CD on mine so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage. Why can't you boot from CD? Is it that old?
If you still have trouble post back. I'll keep thinking about it.
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