Saving the session can be achieved in a number of ways: This is ideal from a security perspective for internet banking or other sensitive financial transactions performed over the internet. When you are finished you can decide to save the session or not! Not saving the session does not leave a trace of the operating system as Puppy runs entirely in RAM and as soon as the computer is powered off the RAM is flushed. You will see a couple of text screens go past and hopefully you will boot to a shiny new desktop with a quick setup screen followed by a welcome screen. Once you have your boot media and computer set up just insert the boot media and switch on your computer. You want to give your optical or USB ports priority over the harddrive. Bootingĭepending on whether you have optical or USB media you may have to go into your computer’s BIOS Setup program to adjust the boot order of devices. There is also a graphical tool for Windows called Win32 Disk Imager.

There is a Windows version of dd available on this site. Be very careful with your target drive name! Here is a simple tutorial on using dd to make a bootable USB drive. Don’t attempt this with older puppy versions unless you know what you are doing. Our ISO images since 2013 come as iso hybrid images so they can be transferred directly to the USB drive using dd. USBĪll Linux versions come with a tool name dd. In Windows we recommend Imageburn (direct link to download) to burn the image to a CD or DVD. Just make sure you burn it as an image and not data otherwise it will not be bootable.

In any Linux, once you have downloaded the ISO image and verified its authenticity by checking its md5sum you can burn it to a DVD or a CD using any Linux optical burning tool. Burning an Optical disc or preparing a USB Drive Optical The fact is that you do not need to install Puppy Linux at all! You can simply download and burn it to an optical disc (CD, DVD, CD±RW, DVD±RW) or dd it to an USB drive and boot it live.

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