When I wrote this it was about the time of Puppy vers 2.15

Here is how I normally explain it, set up your OS partitions (swap,'/', and '/home') and an additional - and optional - (aprox) 2-3gig partition I choose ext2 for this partition ( large enough to be useful after install/copy of your cd remaster (LiveCD) of your system for backup) - you can easily set this up with your new parted magic distro.

From now where I refer to puppy you can use parted magic running in 'copy to ram' mode or nearly any small linux distro

Then when the partitions are written reboot with puppy using 'puppy pfix=ram'
(I find on my dell I also have to add 'ide=nodma')

Once up and running take the Puppy Livecd out, and put the PCLinuxOS disk in.

Select the 'drives' icon and mount the 'addition partition'( or if you decided against that and have a spare directory on an existing partition, mount that partition) then mount the CDrom.

Select all the files on the CDrom then drag and drop to the mounted partition and select copy.

when it has finished copying make a note of the full address of the place you copied the CD (eg /dev/hda?) include the full location if copied to a directory of an existing partition.

un-mount the cdrom and drive then reboot still with the PCLinuxOS disc in place.

when the PCLinuxOS livecd Grub menu come up add the boot parameter 'bootfrom=/dev/hda?' as in the location of the copied CD. if you have no existing grub bootloader you should be able to instruct any existing bootloader

You will find a dramatic increase in install speed with this method - or at least I do.

Also after the install you can still use the extra partition as a 'safe storage' area or as I used to (not done it recently) get a remaster iso of your system and mount that so it copies the relevant files to that partion as if it were a cdrom so you can have a quick way to reinstall your system (just like those pesky acer tools partitions)..