Thanks rrfish72 and kanotixuser. I'm getting closer to what I want now, but I'm still confused about one thing. Will creating a persistent home allow me to download the apps with klik and then re-install them each time I reboot knoppix from cd? This is important because I am trying to run knoppix and any new apps in ramdisk only. I don't mind having the apps source on a hard drive, but the hard drive must never be used after the initial app install, i.e. the apps must not run on the hard drive. Can I do this?