Thanks Bigpup...

For the record... XenialPup_7.5_32-bit
Am testing on an ancient Dell (groan) donated pizzabox...

Rebuild Menu... yep.. that worked..
Thanks..

I'm really not trying to be an awkward ***t... But.. doesn't the fact that that I've had to ask show that (whilst a noob, has spent hrs/days trying to fathom) show that there's a whole load of stuff which is: i) seriously not obvious ii) requires better documentation Please don't burn me.... I'm try...

To ease Windows migrants into uncharted territory... How about a built-in equivalent of Windows' 'Snipping Tool'... This will enable a far more comprehensible 'How to...' wiki/tutorial with the use of screen-shots. Wiki's and tutorials to be maintained accordingly... It will also be a lot easier for...

Coming from Opera 12.18.... get Vivaldi.... it's from the same people. Go through the settings/defaults and set as you choose. Make DuckDuckGo default... Add the following: - Nano Adblocker - Nano Defender - I don't care about cookies - Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Reloaded) ..aaaand it's all good from t...

Just use Vivaldi.. surely?
Go through options/setup and check/uncheck the obvious...

then..

Add following extensions:
- i don't care about cookies
- Nano Adblocker
- Nano Defender
- Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Reloaded)

Sweet!

New install of Xenial...
Downloaded Vivaldi via QuickPet...
Only found it (file>hidden files>opt) and got it running due to considerable help from e-chat..

Why no menu entry?... would have expected downloads from QuickPet to be 100% hassle-free...

Is this an oversight or a no-can-do?

Usually the mods will just move the thread rather than deleting. The information may still be helpful to you and to others. Vivaldi is a nice browser and does work ( or can be made to work ) in Puppy. - Uhoh... I'm not up to anything complicated.. lol It is a Chromium derivative and the latest vers...

wrong forum category... my bad

mods - please delete orig post (and this one) so as to avoid clutter

Pup_Slack_6.3.2 - fresh install to HDD. No other o/s present. Have used the provided Firefox browser to download preferred Vivaldi (32bit Deb version) No sign of it.. so download again.... further attempts get advice box stating 'already present'.. But where is it, or at least where should it be... ...

@belham2 the USB drive in question has had a bit of a thrashing over the last few weeks.. delighted to say that it is working fine! *Whatever that bit of code did (am not a programmer) certainly did the job! Have seen comments on YouTube where people have experienced similar issues after attempting ...

will do...

b(^_^)


*also thanks and respect to ALL who have contributed to this even if I haven't acknowledged your posts individually.. all advice was taken onboard..

@belham2 Have you any insight into why the USB went awol? Never had this happen before and am reasonably clued up on building/repairing PCs and using Windows.. The only other info that I can give is that at one point (very early on.. just after the FreeBSD episode) upon inserting the USB the PC woul...

bigpup wrote:This may help you.
https://www.easeus.com/resource/usb-not ... 0-8-7.html

Thanks for the tip.. already tried that one and several others... none of them recognised the drive.. baffled

Sorted now though..

VII) Go into Disks, click on the drive, and tell Windows to format it to Fat32 or NTFS. It's not there... :-/ This is what I don't understand... works fine in Puppy, used to work fine in Windows until few days ago when I used it to re-start my migration to Linux. Only presence now showing in Window...

^^ what Perdido said...

*USB needs to plugged in before power-up*

Also, is your BIOS up-to-date.. may or may not be important, also depends how comfortable you are with doing this.. lot easier nowadays.. used to be brown-trousers time..

I've done that... Whole drive wiped & msdos table installed Formatted to Fat32.. no joy Wiped again, msdos table installed Formatted to NTFS... no joy Am installing WINE to see if I can get 'BootIt' (Windows prog) to run.... has option to 'bit flip' on it... Unless of course there is a native L...

I've done that... Whole drive wiped & msdos table installed Formatted to Fat32.. no joy Wiped again, msdos table installed Formatted to NTFS... no joy Am installing WINE to see if I can get 'BootIt' (Windows prog) to run.... has option to 'bit flip' on it... Unless of course there is a native Li...

okay.. thanks all for help so far... (LinPup is installed to a single HDD on a separate test PC) can now save/read a test document to USB in Linux Tried the HP prog but USB still not recognised in Windows as accessible drive.. Device Manager can see it but that is all. In all probability it looks li...

It's not the end of the world if I've knackered the USB....

I just want to understand what I've done wrong so as to not repeat..

okay.. following from your(plural) and appreciated advice, I have done the following: Gparted> sdb USB drive > device > create partition table > msdos > apply New > Create new Partition > create as Primary Partition, NTFS > add, apply "All operations successfully completed" [reboot] Create...