Which patch version?

[A543]

I just ran the manual version, phat-patch.zip, and saw it was version 0.2.  Is there an updated version of this? I think the lastest image based version is 0.4.
Including the version number in the filename and on the WIKI and web page would be a good idea.
Also, it might come in handy to have all of the versions available in the downloads area, just in case.

[judb]

phatpatch v4 unlocks more stuff then v2 but you only need v2 to use the new DMS..  so either works for now.

I'll see if we can get v4 put into the patch zip for the manual process this weekend.

[A543]

Ok, how can I extract the phatpatch file from either of the images?  The floppy image contains a ramdisk image, which I can't open, and the ISO keeps coming back with no files, both in WinImage and WinISO.

[STiDriver]

If you don't have a Linux box to mount the CD on you could boot from it and copy the files to a USB flash drive:

Burn and boot the PhatHack ISO
Alt-F4 and hit Enter for a Bash prompt

Plug in the USB Flash drive.  You should see text as it's detected.  The last line should say:
Attached scsi removable disk <device> blah blah blah

Use the <device> in the next line.  For example, if the device is sda:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
copy -R /flashfiles /mnt/flashfiles
umount /mnt

Remove the USB drive and CD.  Then boot back to Windows.  There will be a flashfiles folder on the USB flash drive with all the stuff.

Hope this helps.

[A543]

Thanks for the procedure, that's exactly what I'm going to do.  I'm just curious but I thought that the ISO standard was OS independant, or readable by all OS's. Or is this ISO image just an image of a CD's boot floppy emulation, so it's not really ISO compatible?

[skew]

its just the boot floppy emulation