You'd have to give us the steps you took to install. Puppy Linux is
different in that you have four options :

1) run puppy ony from cdrom and memory (this is a fresh system
everyone you boot it. Changes to the OS can happen when running,
but are dumped. When you shut down. Cd required to boot)

2) install and run puppy from a usb drive. (simalr to cd but you can
preserve changes. Like 1, you can do this with just about any Linux
system. Your bios must support booting from usb or else this gets
tricky. )

3) install puppy as a "frugal install" inside/alongside xp. This
option is what is different. It places all of your Linux data in a
continous file inside xp. Pupy is a separate OS, but needs to be
booted from the cd or usb key (or at least it used to). After
booting, you can remove the cd as you normally do.

4) install puppy to the entire or part of the hard drive and get rid
of windows, or dual boot with windows, respectively.

To me it sounds like you are trying option 4. Unlike most linux
distros, That is not the what puppy was intended for, but entirely
doable if you are ok with the security issues of running as root only.
For example read "why does puppy linux run as root" and below it
here:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SlackoTips>

I have installed Puppy as the base operating system on a laptop in the
past, so it is definitely dooable. Don't forget the excellent forums
as a possible source for help:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/>

maybe it's defaulting to option 4. I don't recall seeing any options to
choose.
But I'll try again and see what I get.

Did c beck run the grub setup? In Puppy, grub is not loaded automated. You
have to run it after you install
before you reboot.

Puppy is a great distro for old PC's. Enjoy...

I'm still having problems after trying some suggestions and reading the forums.
The computer I have does not have USB boot option in BIOS.
There was mention of 4 options. I never saw these. When I booted CD, I did see
F2 and F3 (basic and advanced options). I did see the various command line
options with F2 and F3, but nothing close to what I want. I want to wipe out
Windows XP, not do a dual boot and not run Puppy from CD all the time. I tried
selecting boot partition. didn't work. then I tried puppy pfix=ram.
Nothing different. still cannot eject the CD.

How much RAM do you have, that is usually key as to if you can remove the CD?

Did you already use the partitioning program, it's not as advanced as Ubuntu,
etc.

RAM is 228 mb. No partitioning was done in either Puppy or Win XP. When Win
XP was installed, I told it to format entire disk. Now, I'm trying to load
Puppy and format the entire disk.