@dahveed3

Thanks for your insights. It is "Food for thought", much of which I hope to follow to get a similar configuration. I applaud your effort and your sharing your achievement.

It give me ideas that I can use as my system is about to recieve a Nvidia card.

My ability and my request for here was 2-fold:
1. I wanted to have the ability to adjust my system as simply as possible and thus my approaching the forum for suggestions was to possition me to do that without restrictions and
2.I really need to expand my knowledge of administering a platform that I feel is inherently safe....e.g. LiveCD/LiveDVD.

I had use Puppy and did NOT have the restrictions of navigation that I was running into in Knoppix. This post has helped me tremendously as I am learning rapidly thats to my removing the restrictions I was having before.

Thanks again for you insights. You are helpful.