why are you going to use Bionicpup on this computer?
The newest Puppy version Fossapup64 9.5 would be much better to use.
Puppy Installer", then on "Universal Installer" ― I get the message:
UEFI is not supported. This is useful only if you want to install to a drive which will not be booted on this machine.
It is saying the Puppy Universal Installer is not setup to do installs on UEFI computers.
WE now have an installer that can install to UEFI computers and setup the correct boot loader for them.
Frugalpup Installer.
http://www.fishprogs.software/puppy/fru ... index.html
You can download and load it into the Bionicpup you boot from the USB.
Frugalpup Installer is packaged as a sfs.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/qd0iegdk ... 0.sfs/file
Download to /mnt/home
Load it by using the program sfs-load-on-the-fly
After being loaded.
It will have a entry in menu->Setup to run it by.
Just use the main Frugalpup program to do everything with.
The puppy button does installs.
The boot button installs the boot loader.
So you do the Puppy frugal install.
Then you install a boot loader to boot it.
now I have one physical drive, and sda1 where Puppy is installed, and sda5 where all my files are.. so I want the same.
If you are sure you do not want to keep Windows 10 on the internal drive.
Totally only have Puppy Linux on it.
I think I know already how the drive is setup.
So you could use it as is and maybe make some partition adjustments on the end of the drive.
If you could tell us exactly what is on the internal drive for partitions and their format.
We can go from there.
Gparted program can give you the info.
If you want to totally start over fresh.
Boot with the Bionicpup USB.
Run Gparted program choosing the internal drive as the drive to work on.
MAKE VERY SURE THIS IS THE DRIVE YOU SELECT. This is going to delete everything on drive.
Select device->Create partition table.
Choose GPT
Now start making partitions.
1st one a small 300MB in size, formatted fat 32, flagged boot. (this will be the boot partition and the boot loader goes on it)
(this is a UEFI requirement to have this small fat32 partition as a boot partition)
The rest of the drive you can partition and format as you like.
but I suggest making the second partition 100GB and formatting it ext 3 or 4. (do Puppy frugal installs on it)
with a 1TB drive do make several additional partitions, using up all the unallocated space.
So, with this drive setup.
Use frugalpup installer to do frugal installs of Puppy to the second partition or any of the other partitions.
Install the UEFI boot loader to the small first partition. That is all that goes on this first partition, the boot loader.
Here is some info on using Frugalpup Installer:
Run Frugalpup Installer main program.
On the main window are selection buttons.
Select the Puppy button, to do the install.
Go through install process, selecting to install to the ext formatted partition.
Note:
When selecting the partition to install to.
A window pops up, giving option to make a directory, to put the frugal install in.
I make this directory and usually name it, the name of the Puppy version.
Carefully read that windows info.
Press enter, makes the directory, not the OK button.
complete the install.
When it gets back to the main Frugalpup window.
Select the boot button.
Select the location of the frugal install, on the internal drive.
Select the 1st small 300MB partition on the drive, as location to install the boot loader. (may need to scroll the selection window)
Select the boot loader type.
UEFI
The UEFI will also install the needed files, to support secure boot enabled in UEFI.
When you first boot the internal drive, on a UEFI computer, with secure boot enabled.
A process will start, to allow you to install the Puppy security key, to the computer.
It will add this Puppy key, to the other ones, loaded on the computer.