NOTE: Most IT departments set the BIOS to ONLY boot on the Hard Drive. Only if it finds nothing bootable on those other drives does your computer move to the hard drive and look for the usual operating system there. If there is a CD/DVD or a flash drive with Puppy Linux on it, your computer should boot from that BEFORE it tries the hard drive. In the BIOS you change the settings that tell your computer system to check for other bootable drives BEFORE trying the hard drive of your computer. How ? You tell it in what is called the BIOS. Thus it will not know that you want to run Puppy Linux from the CD/DVD drive.īy telling your computer to check the DVD drive for an operating system first. When a computer boots up it usually checks the hard drive first to see if it contains a bootable operating system.

If your computer boots into your normal operating system (windows) then read this next section: If Puppy Linux comes up you don't have to do anything else. Step 3) Test:Put the newly burnt CD with Puppy Linux into your computer's CD drive (or DVD drive) and reboot.