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If you have a copy of Puppy on a flash drive already and are wishing to install it into another flash drive, start at Step 3 .

Otherwise, you will need a blank cd and a blank flash drive and will follow all of the steps.

1) Download Puppy iso file from: http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/official-releases/puppy-linux-400-dingo

2) Burn to the cd the iso file.

3) Put in the bootable cd (or flash drive, if you already have Puppy), and restart the computer. On the startup screen, press F12 to open the boot menu and choose to boot from the cd rom drive (or usb drive, if using a Puppy flash).

4) Puppy will prompt you to choose which keyboard you are using, as well as which interface you want to use. Choose Xvesa.

5) Once Puppy has loaded, insert the flash drive that you wish to put a new install of Puppy onto. Click on the Mount icon on the desktop to see where the flash drive is located, but do not mount it. It should be sd_. For example, sdb1.

6) Go to the command console and run gparted (Just type gparted). Then, once there, choose the location of the flash drive that you wish to put your new Puppy install on. (If it doesn’t show up, then in the command console, run gparted /dev/sd_ without any number at the end.) Delete any partitions on the flash drive and make a new partition, either fat16 or fat32, that uses the whole flash drive. (It doesn’t have to use the entire flash drive, but if you wish to use it as an OS, it is best to leave the flash drive for Puppy only purposes.)

7) Once done, exit gparted and click on the menu button on the toolbar. Go to setup and choose Puppy universal installer. Choose USB flash drive, and then choose the device that you wish to install to. It will then come up with a notice. Ignore it and click on the puppy icon in the very top right that says “Install Puppy to sd_”

8 ) Read the final notices and accept, and then Puppy will be installed onto your flash drive.

9) Congratulations! You now have a Puppy flash drive.