Ya Know...
Yeah, it's way too late, I'm losing valuable sleep, but...
I gots ta know...
My Acer desktop refuses to boot from a USB thumb drive. In fact, it locks up if one is installed during bootup. Weird. And there is literally NO option for booting from USB in the setup... Very weird.
The Acer Aspire notebook, however, works fine. I'm in Puppy Precise 5.6, working away on it's old Sempron processor. The only problem (if you can call it that) is Puppy starting with the ALSA settings all at zero. The first time I used Puppy and had no sound, that was a problem. Now it's habit to immediately check the settings the minute I boot on a new computer.
It was a bit of a problem, as I botched up which USB drive I stuck in the machine at bootup. (I have a six slot case I keep my working thumb drives in. One side for storage, the other for OS drives. Perversely, I keep 2 identical drives opposite one another. One is a 16 GB drive, for storage, the other the 8 GB with Precise. Guess which one I grabbed first time 'round...) When I force rebooted the system, it apparently reset the boot precedence. So, I had to go back into Setup and redo. Then everything worked perfectly.
Sooooooo... The adventure continues...
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