@elitost :-
Um...heh. AFAIK, from this Puppy Wikka page:-
https://wikka.puppylinux.com/About
.....Barry's wee Chihuahua was, quite simply, called "Puppy".
(We've had to start adding this 'Captcha'-type stuff to the registration process because we were getting overrun by bots...)
One word of advice, although it seems to have worked for you (and I can't entirely figure out why). Under normal circumstances, Etcher doesn't usually work for Puppy.....because it looks for, and expects to copy across a full Linux file-system. Puppy's file-system, as it exists in the 'root' partition, consists of a half-dozen highly-compressed SFS packages.....and Etcher doesn't know what to do with these.
Puppy's file-system doesn't even exist until after she's booted, at which point the SFS packages have by then been decompressed into the 'virtual' file-system in RAM!
Do be aware, the Puppy registration captcha won't necessarily ask you the same questions every time.....so the 'answer' I gave you may not even be relevant on another occasion.
Mike.
I also tried to register on the official Puppy Linux forum, but it asked me for Barry’s dog password.
To be honest, I have no idea what it is… Any hints?
Um...heh. AFAIK, from this Puppy Wikka page:-
https://wikka.puppylinux.com/About
.....Barry's wee Chihuahua was, quite simply, called "Puppy".
(We've had to start adding this 'Captcha'-type stuff to the registration process because we were getting overrun by bots...)
One word of advice, although it seems to have worked for you (and I can't entirely figure out why). Under normal circumstances, Etcher doesn't usually work for Puppy.....because it looks for, and expects to copy across a full Linux file-system. Puppy's file-system, as it exists in the 'root' partition, consists of a half-dozen highly-compressed SFS packages.....and Etcher doesn't know what to do with these.
Puppy's file-system doesn't even exist until after she's booted, at which point the SFS packages have by then been decompressed into the 'virtual' file-system in RAM!
Do be aware, the Puppy registration captcha won't necessarily ask you the same questions every time.....so the 'answer' I gave you may not even be relevant on another occasion.
Mike.

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