Well I do appreciate the suggestion but unfortunately it didn't work, so what I did was do a frugal install on one partition and use the other as my storage. good enough for now this is my first foray into linux and i honestly cannot believe how much faster puppy is compared to Windows or OS 10 lots...

Oddly enough i actually thought about doing this but then....didnt. for some reason. Thanks for the suggestion will try it out as soon as i get home

So i just got Puppy up and running on my macbook 3,1 by partioning the drive, using refit, and unetbootin. as i said in the title i dont have a working CD drive on the macbook, and it wont boot from a thumb drive, so what i did was use unetbootin to install the puppy iso to /dev/disk3 (my puppy part...