I have the impression that you like challenges, keeps the mind active. In any event, dpup484b4 is very stable, and Lighthouse 4.43 final is greatl. I'm posting from Lighthouse that is using your ideas for a 3fs save file and changes to ext3 in the initrd.gz file that you helped me with. I really like it. Thanks again for helping me get it set up.better the devil you know and everything works really well..I can't be bothered to debug everything again. Besides I'm gradually replacing libs from debian.
Puppy 2.02 is particularly fast and the 1 series flew so speed is another consideration.
Edit: I just installed Lighthouse on an ext4 partition, renamed the 3fs file to 4fs, no change to initrd.gz, however, the 4fs save file is not recognized. The pupsave.3fs, mounted as ext3, runs fine on the ext4 partition. I just may give it a long term test.
Jim