At first I tried the 'Usb Startup disk creator' under Administration in Ubuntu 9.04 but it came up with the error "This is not a desktop install CD and thus cannot be used by this application"(word by word, exactly that!) so I wasn't sure what to do.
Later on I was browsing around and I found a pogram I had tried(not suceeded) to use a while back called 'unetbootin' which I then tried on my PC using it to put pup-430.iso onto a usb. It failed(I was gonna try it again but this 8gb xp died of a blue screen!)
So, I tried the linux version of it on my ubuntu machine(emergency hard disk!), it worked. I ran the wizard onto my 2 gig usb, plugged it into my eeepc 700 and it booted absolutely perfectly!
To be honest, it looked a bit crappy(windows 98) at first but in not long it was fine after I gave it a hair cut!
That's not all. I've been looking at boot speed on OSs lately and I decided to do a comparison of puppy (running of my SD card on my EP700) and xandros(on my EP900).
So, I turned on my ubuntu 9.04 desktop, and using the clock and notepad, I got these survey results:
(The puppy on my 700 EP was on an SD card, so I had to change the boot as fast as I could at startup, this would make puppy's startup speed 3-5 seconds slower. Keep that in mind!):
Xandros Power On to Cursor View: 20 seconds
Puppy Power On to Cursor View: 47 seconds
Xandros Power On to Full Load: 48 seconds
Puppy Power On to Full Load: 53 seconds
Xandros Shut Down to Power Down: 31seconds
Puppy Shut Down to Power Down: 16 seconds
Now, if you ask me, that was a good result for puppy saying as it's running from an SD card on a slower PC!
My conclusion of Puppy is that it's a very good operating system with good apps and a good size. That's all for this post!
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