Dave thanks indeed for seeing things from my crude and stubborn point of view.
I barely get what you say due to my lack of knowledge and I have a running system now so what I lack is the understanding of refining it and to knowledge enough to explain to others what I did and why it was done that way and not as all the others told me how to.
I am an embarrassingly impatient guy that take any failure very hard.
I was at it 2008 but when it failed to work on my vista machine then it took me one year to recover from the blow and to try again.
2008 I had a running system on an win XP machine. several puppy and Nimblex linux and Vector soho special edition with save very unique.
But that set up did not work on the vista so I had to relearn how to do things.
I did publish my menu.lst somewhere. I have to make an easy to follow How to so others who fail to follow the real guides at least get a working system and then later them can learn to do it the recommended way when they have some experience of what makes that soo incredibly hard.
What I still want to accomplish before I write it all down is to get Linux Mint going.
I asked on their forum and as I remember they told me that due to some lack of compatibility they themselves don't know how to but that they work on a solution and will tell us later or change the distro so it become compatible.
Linux Mint was one of the five best linux live USB distros of the 40 I have tested from the
http://distrowatch.com/ top list of downloads.
Puppy has gone down from 8 to 9 place now.
1. Ubuntu
2. Fedora
3. Linux Mint
4. Open Suse
5. Mandriva
6. Debian
7. Sabayon
8. Arch
9. Puppy
10. PCLinuxOS
etc
Fedora and Open Suse was too big to fit on my small USB mem pins so I don't know if they would have worked.
If I come upon a description on how to add them to my frugal install then I can test them too.
I don't know what Ubuntu using Wubi installer did change. But it allowed me to test ubuntu. I wanted to test a Swedish remix but wubi didn't want me to. so even there it totally failed but I got at least the official Ubuntu working now and I managed to download flash for youtube using the sudo apt-get install ... command on CLI. But that was more luck then really know what I did.
I tried to use Wingrub which is supposed to be the windows version if Grub4Dos but I failed to understand the gui.
So I used EasyBCD instead and tried to only do things that I trusted was fairly safe to tamper with and it worked.
But Puppeee there something did happen so some 5 hours later I skipped Puppeee and tried Macpup instead and that worked first time and then I tried Pup431JP and that one worked too so I will test many more Puppy and try to follow the development of Quirky until that one is stable release.
I think the Woof thing that Barry are working on is a must for Puppy to keep being popular outside us who already are liking Puppy.
MultiSession DVD with save is a unique product. But Puppy seldom work with wired broadband for me. Other distros just work out of the box while Puppy can take hours to get going if at all. such is sad.
sorry me so wordy.