I just recently got the Puppy Linux installed on to my jumpdrive and i know to start it up, you have to change your BIOS. After I first installed it, I had to use the live-cd to get it going, which the site said i would have to do. But after I did that, it said to change my BIOS first boot setting to USB drive which I tried. I could not find a place where it said USB anything. All of the setting were, floppy diskette, cd, hardrive, and network. I'm running a Compaq Presario that came with a Windows XP and it is updated to SP3.

Make a Wakepup floppy since bios doesn't support boot from usb.

The BIOS could support booting from a USB; one of my little machines does that. You have to get either get into the BIOS setup before Linux begins to boot though to set the boot order, or issue a command to bring up a BIOS boot menu. Pressing ESC will work for some BIOSes.

[quote]I could not find a place where it said USB anything. All of the setting were, floppy diskette, cd, hardrive, and network.[/quote] Definitely sounds like your BIOS doesn't support booting from a USB device. You can use the wakepup floppy as suggested: http://puppylinux.org/wiki/applications/dot-pets/wakepup, assuming you have a floppy drive.

My machine doesn't have a floppy drive. I'm just having to leave the live CD i created in the CD-ROM everytime i turn the machine on if i want to go to Puppy or it will just run Windows. Is that normal? And by the way, my Windows OS seems to be running a little slower than usual. Everything is till running properly it is just slower. Will a defragment on the Windows OS solve this problem?

[quote]Will a defragment on the Windows OS solve this problem[/quote] Probably. Can't hurt. Disk cleanup wouldn't hurt either. Google CCleaner and download into Windows and install and use it to to unclutter Windows if you wish.