I'm probably 'crossing the river to find water'. If On PC-xyz I have access to a USB port for reading a Pupsave, it doesn't really matter whether the Avast is inside the Pupsave or in a separate folder. The CD I made is probably not open to extend or modify so I think I'll stay with what I have, but...

Thank you again Sylvander. Yes seems to be as you say, however I feel I do not need this command to be executed before X starts, so it could be in Startup. All my googles on this site for converting the textfile with the command to an executable script failed. Finally "make a file executable&qu...

The command you showed, Sylvander i.e. the/...kernel/shmmax=130000000, was a great help. It allowed me to run avast and update it and run with the updated virus-database. I saved the session when I shutdown the PC and then, when I restarted and launched Avast it showed an "Error in avast engine...

Took me endless hours to get that working. The most common situation is a LAN with PCs accessing a Mdm-Router with a nailed up allways available internet connection. The PCs need not bother about username / password. All they need is a working Ethernet connection. My conclusion after my hazzles : Wi...

Thank you All. I found that the Mainboard is weird ! I mentioned that it could be something with networking but did not know how to disable that in Linux. I then tried to disable the On-Board Ethernet card in the CMOS-Setup. No progress. Back to WinXp after reenabling the ether-card but now no netwo...

Thank you Panzerkopf. I tried the puppy i8042.reset alone and also at the end of the previously recommended commands but the bastard still goes into hangup. Is there a way to exclude networking ? Setting up Services (network, printing, etc.)... [ backgrounded ] the others end with done With the Bart...

Thank you for your reply.
I executed your Step 1 with pkeys=us
It reaches
Setting up services (network, print ...
Then
Recognising media devices ... optical <- here it alredy hangs

Puppy Linux 4.3.1 MB= ASROCK K7S41GX AMD 2800+ 1 GB RAM Tried to boot from CD. ALL in RAM. Reaches choice of keyboard and hangs, i.e. keyboard is dead ! Under WinXp the PC appears to work normally when started from 160GB WD1600AAJB-0033A0 harddisk. On 2 other PCs here puppy from this CD works normal...