Windows Running in RAM Using Puppy - despite download problems

Hi all, I am a real newbie here - have fiddled with Puppy, DSL and variious other Linux flavours for years now - settled on Puppy for a project I wanted to do - be able to run all my old Windows software in a virtual machine in RAM along with Puppy 4.1.1, on my netbook. I have so many computers that it has actually become embarassing explaining why - suffice to say I used an MSI Wind for this project as I had an extra GB RAM put in when I bought it. I chose to use Win NT4 for this project (because it is small and was just collecting dust) along with Office 97 and a few other Windows programs I like to use regularly - all of which fit into a 500mb vm and happily run even in a machine with only 1GB RAM, faster than lightening!

However, it seems that the dark forces of the computer cosmos were all aligned against me in doing this exercise, as I was frustrated at each turn in achieving exactly what I wanted to do. In particular, there was that damn 'concurrent download limit' message I kept getting from discussion forum pages at murga-linux.

Puppy's ease of use should have made this task easy but I couldn't get the downloads I needed so I resorted to downloading the vuppy derivative (which I did manage to get hold of after a few frustrating attempts) although it is not exactly the Virtualbox or Puppy version I wanted.

I am hoping that the murga-linux problem is just one of bandwidth and I will be able to get a couple of files come next month. Am I correct in assumming this or is there something else I need to do in order to get a download? I am reading from this thread:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=30297

I have only been able to download one of the three files mentioned to be able to get Virtualbox 2 running on version 4.1.1 of Puppy.

Anyway, after much frustration and late nights trying to get downloads that just wouldn't give - I settled for being able to run my WinNT4 vm in RAM with the older version of Virtualbox and Vuppy!

Ultimately, I will probably have to use vmware ... as unfortunately, I have discovered that virtualbox will not allow shared directories with anything less than Windows 2000.

Can anyone help? Any advice at this point would be most welcome.

Why would anyone want to do this you may well ask? Just because you can! --- Especially easily with Puppy as it turns out!

My interest in running things in RAM began when I found a way to get Windows 98 to boot up as a compressed RAM Drive via a work-around using Drivespace. Then I discovered Damn Small Linux and ultimately, Puppy, and enjoyed using them at the speed of RAM.  Somehow though, having both Puppy and WinNT running in RAM at the same time is way, way cooler than booting Win98 into RAM! One could easily network lower spec, diskless PCs that booted puppy and vms of choice from a server into ram for scintilating performance despite the lower spec.