Morning, young'un,
Sorry if that was confusing; I'll try and explain it a bit more carefully for you.
Firstly, you have to know that all versions of Puppy Linux were designed to run from a flash drive, right from the first one.....back in, I think, 2004. They were always intended to be carried around in your pocket, from one place to another.
Obviously, your first move is to burn that .iso file to a CD (as slowly as possible; important for any install disk, really). Once you've done that, arrange things so you can boot from the CD, just like using an Ubuntu 'Live Session. You'll be quite surprised how quick Puppy boots; the first time is slower, because nothing's setup yet, but....anyway. When it first starts, you get a 'setup' screen; DO select the firewall, and select 'Run internet apps as Spot' (I'll try and explain about 'Spot' later...) THIS assumes, of course, that your screen is behaving itself; this setup screen is where you get to select different video drivers'n'stuff, I believe, although that isn't something I've needed to do.....mine runs fine with the standard AMD driver.
Then go to the Menu button (bottom left, just like Windows), and select 'Setup'; then down near the bottom of the sub-menu, 'Puppy Installer'. I can't really talk you through this next bit, because there are SO many windows, but really, Alex, a blind man couldn't get lost.....the instructions are so easy, and self explanatory.
Once you've got it installed, the very next thing to do is to shut it down! Doesn't make sense, probably, but this is where Puppy creates your personal 'save-file'. This is all your changes, alterations, anything you save or download, etc. Again, follow the instructions. When you select 'Shutdown', select 'Save' on the yellow window that appears STRAIGHT AWAY; if you don't, it disappears within about 20 seconds, and the shut down 'save' procedure is aborted. There's a lot of small print to read on some of these windows, and you don't get all that long to read it.
Puppy used to create a fixed size save-file, but it now creates a folder, or 'directory' as Puppy calls it, which can expand to the capacity of your flashdrive. DO make sure you know the location (sdx.x whatever) of your flashdrive, so you get the right place; it wants to be on the same flashdrive as you've just installed it to, obviously, so that you have a completely self-contained system that you can put in your pocket.
I hope this is making sense; I'm not sure as I CAN explain it MUCH more simply.
Puppy consists of just 4 files; initrd.gz, vm.linuz, a .sfs file (squash file system), which contains the bulk of the OS, including kernel and everything else.....and your personal 'save-file', which is created on the very first shutdown.
Really, that's it. Once Puppy has shut down, boot it up FROM the flashdrive.....and see whether it's installed correctly.
Mike.
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