>The only other machine I have available is running Windows
Err, there is such a thing as live cd/live usb
You do need to be able to boot from usb,, get into bios,, turn OFF windows fastboot
(all above in reverse,,,, or burn a cd/dvd if you can, usb much faster)
Nearly all iso images are "hybrid" images, can just be dd'd to usb, raw device, not partition
(but chicken-egg, I'm sure winflash will work too)
Most, nowadays, are rather large (2GB+), simple one (and somewhat charming)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pup...0-uefi.iso
livecdlist seems somewhat defunct, old, but links still work
Err, there is such a thing as live cd/live usb
You do need to be able to boot from usb,, get into bios,, turn OFF windows fastboot
(all above in reverse,,,, or burn a cd/dvd if you can, usb much faster)
Nearly all iso images are "hybrid" images, can just be dd'd to usb, raw device, not partition
(but chicken-egg, I'm sure winflash will work too)
Most, nowadays, are rather large (2GB+), simple one (and somewhat charming)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pup...0-uefi.iso
livecdlist seems somewhat defunct, old, but links still work