But now that Puppy has the option of using a save folder, there is a better way.
1. Format your flash drive with two partitions - a FAT32 for your ISOs and an ext4 for storage.
2. Set up the first partition with ISObooter as usual. For "Choose a partition for Puppy savefiles", enter 2.
3. Select "Boot from splash screen = n".
4. Boot off the flash drive. At first shutdown, make a save folder. Puppy is smart enough to put it on the second partition.
5. On subsequent shutdowns, you should find the saving procedure to be much faster.
Update: In some Puppies, you can speed up the boot sequence by changing "pmedia=cd" to "pmedia=usbflash". This will also prevent a situation where Puppy accidentally finds its core files on the hard drive and uses them instead.
Update: Making the ext4 partition non-journaled may improve shut-down times. For example:
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umount /mnt/sdb2 #just in case
tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdb2