Thank you very much for your assistance. I was able to get WindowMaker working. I ended up reinstalling KNOPPIX onto the flash drive (incidentially the flash-knoppix program doesn't seem to really like overwiting KNOPPIX) I then executed the commands you provided as root. I had to chown the files to knoppix and also I believe create ~/GNUStep/WindowMaker. Restarting with knoppix desktop=wmaker works and I'm posting this from KNOPPIX 7 running WindowMaker. This all seems to be done automatically under Debian, if someone could look into why this isn't the case under KNOPPIX it would be great.