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My thanks to all of you who have generously provided advice about this issue.

I now have a simple way to load the OS options, but past that stage, the selections just do not work, loading either Grub or Lick from which no commands will find or load the Linux Puppy OS. I have tried many options ...

Yes! Copied the bionicpup files across to "programs" on the C drive, then used Rufus to install the app onto the USB - also loaded it onto a new DR rom - both successfully thank you.
It also automatically out Windows installer and several other files onto these drives so with luck, either will now ...

I must be even dumber than I thought.

Rufus has been downloaded onto the C drive and I have successfully partitioned the USB drive

Bionicpup64-8.0-uefi has been downloaded onto the USB drive also

But - I am buggered if I can make Rufus load the disk image file I have tried all the setting options ...

Very few people seem to add a grub entry to the Windows bootloader configuration and then set either Windows or Puppy as the default OS to start. This way you don't touch the existing boot record. Just as a matter of interest and for "useless" information -Personally, I use a neat little trick to ...

Thanks guys - that is all very helpful and I'll go through the recommendations carefully. Have to go to town now for supplies so it might be tomorrow before I get to it - the joys of living in the bush 80+ km from a "city"

Cheers from OZ

Alan

Rural based idiot here! You would think at my age and the experience of too many computer systems to name, I would have worked this out, but no such luck

Got sick of Microshite dumping crap on my Dell laptop - currently running Win10 so I decided to try a dual boot solution, After much research, I ...