Thankyou to Barry Kauler for 4.1 retro kernal on 6 year old Toshiba notebook
After delighting in a 4.10 puppy 2 gig flash drive install legacy usb speed and limited pcmcia access because of a wireless card (preventing 2.0 usb cardbus co-operation) I tried a hard puppy.
puppy-4.10retro-k2.6.21.7-seamonkey (5df47ec44bde7ede3c52bfe2e670562) Hard Disk install with grub on mbr