Morning, Jack.
Hm. One should be the forum, t'other should be the Puppy Linux main page.
Anyway, I see you've found your way to the forum already (
and got through the registration; good man! It's been 'playing up' a bit this last year or so...)
Meant to say last night, you can run Puppy from a USB stick. Puppy was originally designed to run this way by its creator, the Australian Barry Kauler. You don't even need to touch your hard drive
at all. XP can (and should!) stay on there.
(There's always stuff you
need Windows for. Linux matches most Windows software, but some, it's not so good at. As we say, 'Keep XP....play with, and enjoy Puppy!' Even so, it's an extremely capable little system, with everything you could possibly want for day-to-day use within an ISO image size of around 200 MB.)
Shouldn't have any problems getting something running on that Toshiba Satellite. Somebody on the Forum was asking questions about one just the other day. We've got quite a few hardware experts on there; somebody will help you out!
BTW; I shan't see 55 again....
Mike.