I have the .iso files burned to cd for puppy 431, I have puppy 430 fully installed on the harddrive of a Dell Inspiron 7500. I have been unable to upgrade. Everytime I try it gets to the layered filesystem, swap files and then says Kernel panic, then shuts the system down. Help! I am a big time newb...

Hello. I am really new to this. I am trying to fix, umm :?: reuse an old Dell laptop. It had Window vista on it and crashed. I was able to load an old version of Windows 98 SE that I had a disk for, but it isn't very usable for my needs. I was searching for a new OS when I came across Puppy, but I a...