Booted up, waste of time as usual but waited anyway... waited... suddenly Mint start-up appeared - I was so shocked I was paralysed and allowed it to default its way through lots of "error" messages until it loaded itself.

It's on the same flash drive, different USB socket (like wot Grumps suggested, so I'm not sure if I missed that one with Puppy). Wifi working 🙂 But apart from that, the only thing functional seems to be the Install ?:| There's no internet browser (just File Browser), and it knows what programs/apps I've got installed in Windows XP 😮 I must be missing something but I'm sure that a few years ago when I ran Puppy/Mint/Gnome etc from CD they had a browser

If I install it, shall I make a partition first (must have dual boot) or will it do it for me? I dare not progress any further.

Scuse my ignorance :(