I indeed used Woofy for Vinnie -- I'm getting better, it only took four tries to get it right
all 3 "failures" (I use the term quite loosely here) were either because I did something I shouldn't have, or didn't do something I should have. In other words, cranial-RAM instability causing PEBCAK errors
I have that a lot.
More concisely: if I hadn't forgotten things mid-build, I would've easily gotten Vinnie out on the first try. Maybe next Vinnie (which I still hope will happen -- alas, I've been hit with multiple misfortunes on the computer that's powerful enough to do it, so that I can't use that system right now) which will quite likely be based on X-Slacko 1.1 and have PAE as well as Non-PAE versions.
A side note for PAEophiles (lol) -- as much as PAE is an annoyance when trying to boot on eg most Pentium M and Celeron M laptops... it does perform one helpful function. *If* you have 64bit hardware *and* you want to run a 32bit OS anyways for some reason, you can use PAE and access all your RAM, rather than be restricted to ~3gb of it. I do find it practical in that one single narrow circumstance... but the rest of the time it isn't useful and just kinda wastes performance that I'll probably need -- assuming it doesn't just keep me from booting Puppy.
*ahem*
I've never really messed with TurboPup Alpha3a (or anything other than Xtreme 1.0). BTW Akita is Wary5 based IIRC so you probably won't have too much luck with that -- try Puplite 5.0 -- IIRC it's actually based on TurboPup somehow.