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New revelations to the update:

The USB stick that I thought was a total success was not a complete success. When I look at the drive in Gparted, it shows the device as having an unrecognized file system. In the view device information panel, it shows partition table: loop . It seems I did not ...

Update:
I used the default location to save the save file (not folder) in slacko64 and it works fine. I used Gparted from within slacko64 to partition a new USB stick and formatted each partition before installing F96-CE_4 to it and then created a boot file for it. The new USB stick boots up with ...

Oh wow! So much priceless information from both of you. Thanks! Great stuff to know.

I found a nifty site about the different Puppy versions at https://wikka.puppylinux.com/PuppyVersion .
There's even a rescue version for Windows machines called puprescue 2.5
A version for the blind with text-to ...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11928982/what-is-the-difference-between-vfat-and-fat32-file-systems
explains vfat quite nicely but has some corrections in the comments section.
So... looks like fat32 is the better one to use (since vfat might just be an overlay driver that I saw in my ...

bigpup
I was carefully reading over your formatting suggestions and don't see vfat included. In my original post, I indicated that:
Rufus created 3 partitions on my USB stick:
sda1 which I'm assuming is the boot partition; 54MB, vfat
sdc1 which I guess is the root or Home partition; 2.7GB, vfat ...

Many thanks BigPup! You are a huge help!

Even before you mentioned it, I was already thinking that I may need a couple of different Puppy versions. That preconfigured stick by Mike looks like a great solution where many versions can be added to the one stick. However, I still want to try doing it ...

Thanks Mikeslr.
I had seen and read the first link previously, but the others do look interesting. Hirens requires 2 GB memory which is pushing it for some older machines.
It does provide me with options though! It's always nice to have a plan B.
Somewhere in my early research I had also read that ...

Thanks for the great and quick replies!
I appreciate that you actually EXPLAIN things rather than just say, do this or that. Understanding WHY is most important to me.
You clearly explained why my chosen version of Puppy doesn't offer me the ability to create a save folder.
Since you are so ...

Hello all. I'm new to linux, coming from Windows. I spent 3 days researching for an OS that I can run from a USB memory stick and decided on Slaco 64 v 7.0.
I began reading about how to accomplish my goal and found many useful posts, including one that said to put your save files into a separate ...