well thanks for your effort, I finally decided to give a frugal install to the harddisk a go. Even though its a small harddisk, I resized the first partition (containing winxp) to have some space free. And I dont regret this decision - nevertheless, maybe it is especially for people who are not hand...

Netgear WG111v2 USB stick works flawlessy in Puppy 4.1 without any manual work. It contains the RTL8187 chipset, which seems to be natively supported by the kernel.

... solved it manually through bash via wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant daemon.

If someone is interested in this (manual) solution, I'll post it on my blog.

I have a Netgear WG111v2 USB WLAN stick and tried to connect to my AP, which is using WPA2 encryption. wlan0 device is detected and working - I see my AP (and others ;) ) when I do a scan withtin the network gui. But whenever I try to use the network setup gui (net-setup.sh) and fill in the password...

... so anyone got a clue how to install puppy on a USB stick regarding the missing sfs ?

I searched the forum all over but didn't find this particular information - thx for that.
Seems like the installer is broken/not updated.
I even tried the Superdisk install - it didn't work either, though, as far as I remember, didn't whine about the missing file.

Hi, today I downloaded puppy 4.1 with the newer kernel, checked md5sums and burnt it to and booted from CD - works like a charm. As I want to install puppy to an USB Stick (to use on my laptop), I have run the Puppy installation tool to do so. But there is a problem - the tool whines about missing z...