1. Use the Puppy Universal Installer to create a frugal install on a hard disk
2. Boot into new frugal puppy using grub
3. Make changes i.e. use the network wizard to automatically connect to the internet.
4. Select Shutdown/Reboot Computer from menu
5. Select Save to sda? when prompted (save to file works).
6. Reboot Computer and no settings (keyboard, locale, timezone & xorg/xvesa) have been remembered and internet connection has not been established, unlike when save to file has been chosen.

There is evidence that this may be an outstanding bug for sometime.

Bug is still present in version 5.01