OMG, so much great advice! Thank you, guys! Especially Mike and Ally. I will try another version of Puppy. Nephew only has 'bout once/week to work on this project, so he hasn't been back to it yet. I'm sure he'll want to try all this. One good thing: I don't think Wary Puppy 5.5 is "mounted to ...

Thank you, Ally! I will try all this w/ my nephew next time we have to work on the old laptop. Sorry, some questions: I think it has to be Wary Puppy version b/c the laptop is so old. Won't a laptop this old not be able to run a newer Linux Kernel? Where/how do I get gParted and the grub programs yo...

Sorry this is a dupe post! I just found my original post. Totally sorry for the duplicate!

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Sorry, I thought I posted this question last night, but I can't find my post. My apologies, too, as I'm totally new to this, just started using Linux yesterday. My nephew and I are trying to bring back to life an old Dell Inspiron 1000 from 2002 as a project. It has Windows XP Srvc Pack 3 and we've ...

Please, forgive me, I'm super new, never used Linux before yesterday. But, I have an old Dell Inspiron 1000 running Windows XP. My nephew and I want to re-image it with Wary Puppy 5.5. We've already created a bootable CD-ROM (of Wary Puppy 5.5) with the downloadable ISO at puppylinux.org. We've alre...