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The boast about Puppy Linux being "grandpa-friendly" has always made me laugh, but I let it pass. I know that the only grandfathers who are capable of managing Puppy Linux, or any Linux for that matter, are ones who worked in the software, engineering, or IT business. But now I found an article that ...

Tails recommends using the Restore Disk Image function of GNOME Disk Utility to "burn" a LiveUSB. It works fine for that, so I tried it with Fossapup64 9.5, but it resulted in the same grub/whatever screens mentioned before. That functionality probably uses dd, so the result is not surprising.

Thanks for all of the responses. MrHull did what I should have done, take photos of the offending screens and post them. By the way, I used Puppy Linux years ago, but then I started using Linux Mint, Devuan, and Sparky Linux. I never had a problem using the older ISOs. I downloaded Focal 64 and used ...

Focal 64 is fossapup64-9.5.iso downloaded from puppylinux.com. I tried downloads from main and mirror, but both had the same result. Bionic 64 is bionicpup64-8.0-uefi.iso downloaded from puppylinux.com. The dd command was "sudo dd if=fossapup64-9.5.iso of=/dev/sdX" where 'X' represents the port in ...

I downloaded Focal 64 and used dd to make a LiveUSB. However, it never booted. I was presented with Grub and other stuff in a console. I tried it a few times with the same result. Then I realized that the BIOS of my laptop (Intel 3rd Generation Core processor, 8 GB memory) is set for legacy boot ...