This was on a Twinhead Slimnote 9TE-233TZ, Bios version: R1.07 (233MHz, 128MB)
CD-ROM: Toshiba XM-1602B, firmware 1132
HDD: 5GB in two 2.5GB partitions (with Win98 currently installed)
I tried installing Puppy 1.0.8r1 from CD, 'Normal boot' (ACPI off and on) and 'run in ramdisk'. After a minute or so, this is what I ended up with each time:
I looked around on the forum, but didn't find anything that seemed like the same error.Loading vmlinuz...............
Loading image.gz...isolinux: Disk error 20, AX = 4200, drive FF
Boot failed: press a key to retry...
To make sure the disc wasn't bad, I tried it on an Averatec 1050 (1.1 GHz Pentium M, 512MB) and it booted fine. Audio worked, but I didn't try the integrated wireless.
-Phydeaux
(edit: added HDD info)