If you have a floppyless setup, then you should be able to boot from the cd. If so, then instead of running 'setup' after logging in as root (from the cd), make a directory called linux in /mnt ( mkdir /mnt/linux ) mount the root directory ( / ) on the disk to /mnt/linux, such as 'mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/linux'. Make sure you substitute 'hda1' with the correct partition. Then you can make the necessary changes to your config file.
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PS: Whenever you change the fonts, add or subtract fonts, etc., then you should run the command 'fc-cache' to update the system. This will remap the fonts to the system.