Puppy Linux Help

[fri3ndlygiant]

I recently discovered an old computer running Windows XP, and I would like to put Puppy Linux on it instead because it will run much faster. I tried many things to boot the live version of it, but all ended up in the computer having a black screen with a small white line blinking as if I were to type something. It does not let me type. I followed a tutorial on YouTube that says to use Unetbootin and have it extract all the files on to a USB flash drive. This is how I would like to do it, but it doesn't work either.

Here is a screenshot of all of the files on the USB drive:

P.S. does it matter that I am using Unetbootin on a new computer than putting the USB drive on the old one?

 

[crashtestdummy]

Try running it on your newer machine, just to make sure it isn't something specific to the computer.

 

[fri3ndlygiant]

I did. I get the same problem

 

[lxskllr]

Try a different drive if possible. I have some in my collection that don't like being boot drives.

 

[ninaholic37]

Try the version that comes with Unetbootin (Puppy 4.20 I think). If that works, then try some of the others (each one might behave differently). I got Slacko 5.6 to work on 4 different laptops, but a few of them were first-gen Pentium M's so I used the non-PAE version. 5.7 works on this laptop too (from USB and on the hard drive). I don't think Puppy is faster than XP though (they seem about the same overall) but it's definitely cleaner (5 files / 200MB vs. ~1000 files / 1.5GB).

edit: If you get a black screen with cursor, the boot disk might not be registering. I think my 16GB flash drives didn't work but my 512MB one did (for some reason).

 

[fri3ndlygiant]

Thanks for the help I will try all of these

 

[fri3ndlygiant]

Oh and also I was using a 32gb flash drive so that may be the problem. I will try a smaller one.

 

[fri3ndlygiant]

It works now I just needed a different flash drive.