Thanks for your script post.
With regard to your method (a) you will need to explain to users how to execute a script with variables as many will never have done so.
At the end of the script you echo:
That may or may not be so. It totally ignores the possible need to edit syslinux.cfg.Your USB stick on $USBstick in ready for use.
Your script needs to mirror ALL the instructions given here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 134#767134
At the end of your post you commented :
That rather proves my point as you booted into a copy of QT rather than Blue Pup V3.BUT desktop came back NOT as BLUE but instead Tahr.
@ 8-bit,
Yes, from legacy USB3 mode, but you will need to enter the BIOS at boot time and select that. The stats at the bottom of my previous post are from a UEFI pc.I do wonder if a Blue flash drive would boot on a PC that had UEFI.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gparted+features&l=1#I am also trying to see if the latest version of Gparted which is around .18 would allow resizing of an f2fs partition.