musher0, I will think about getting the CD with the brushes that clean the "heads". Thank You.

PS: My friend is starting to suggest that he may no longer be interested in pursuing Linux.

Flash, the disks are Memorex and Sony. Both brands behave in the same way. Maybe I will have to find better quality DVD's / CD's? Thank You.

Burn_IT, the laptop will burn and boot Saluki from a DVD or CD. It will burn other pups to a DVD or CD, but will not boot them?? Thank You for your suggestion.

bigpup, we will try your suggestion and try a flash drive. We will let you know the results in a day or so... Thank you.

musher0, yes, the laptop has a DVD/CD burner and reader..... according to the User Guide the hardware is fine. We decided to try one more pup... Saluki. It burned and booted on his laptop. It runs as expected. However, non of the other "pups" will boot. Thank you for your support.

Toni, Thank You for your response to my question. Basically, I was visiting a friend and just showing him Linux... well, mostly Puppy Linux. He had never heard of Linux. Anyway, I was just looking for a small OS to boot on his laptop. I tried several, but his laptop would not boot them. We were not ...

I was told by someone on another website to try Saluki. By golly, it worked.

Why is Saluki the only Linux pup that will boot on my friend's laptop? Nothing makes sense.

Anyway, good "ole" Jemimah. She is one of a kind... very talented... I miss her very much...

bigpup: We used a DVD-RW. Based on your suggestion, we burned Tahrpup to both a DVD-R and a DVD+R. The DVD's would not boot on his laptop. We received the same error messages. The DVD's booted just fine on my laptop. We were using Taharpup PAE. We tried Tahrpup nonPAE. My friend's laptop would still...

cthisbear and ocpaul20: Thank you for your suggestions. We downloaded Tahrpup and burned it at speeds of 4x and 3x. My laptop will boot it, but his will not... his gives us the same error code we mentioned above. My friend does not want to copy any puppylinux files to his hard drive at this particul...

Maybe you can help us. We just posted a message in "Users (for the regulars) about not being able to boot a DVD. We burned another DVD with DebianDog Wheezy and get the following error message during the boot process... from= cheatcode is incorrect, press enter to search through all devices. Af...

I was showing my friend how to boot "puppy". His machine starts out fine, but when it gets to "searching for puppy files".... we get the following error message... puppy_precise_5.7.1. sfs not found, dropping out to initial-ram disk console. His laptop is about 6 years old and is...

just my opinion... but, believe me... it's not worth downloading... LOL

saintless... once again, Thank You... I now have both Abiword and Gnumeric working...

saintless... thank you for your support... will do as you say...

Using jessie xfce/openbox... installed abiword and gnumeric... but, neither app will open... how can I fix this? Thank You...

Does anyone know if BK's "official" pups ping Google servers... or, something similar?

I wonder what else goes on behind our back with puppylinux?

I understand Google is a great company and lots of people use it. That's fine by me... however, I try to stay as far from Google as possible.

I will never use LxPup.

Thank you very much for answering my question. Below is another explanation from the Ubuntu forum... Anyway, I "sort of" understand why the file exists... http://askubuntu.com/questions/493198/what-is-a-fuse-hidden-file-and-why-do-they-exist PS: Thanks for DebianDog... You guys are "f...

I keep seeing the following type of hidden files when using Debian Dog, e.g....

.fuse_hidden0000006500000005

Is anyone familiar with this type of file? Thank You.

Geoffrey, that worked. I appreciate your support. Thank you very much. mikeb, just a quick note to let you know that I did search and found the Xfce Menu at... /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu. However, no matter how much I played around with it, I could not not eliminate the sub-categories. Th...