Quote Originally Posted by RE Dude
Many thanks to you.

I thought the latter (with multiple knoppix) looked wrong, but I wasn't for certain. I had to post that question, because in the past I typed:

boot: knoppix lang=us myconfig=scan home=scan keyboard=us (and so on)

This resulted in some strange things when my desktop loaded. Icons were all over the place (misaligned) and subdirectories I created for other purposes (in my home directory) were missing. This is now working, but applications like AbiWord don't save documents --- at all. I'm sure it's something I've done, because for the most part. Knoppix works great!!!
Beleive it or not I've never even tried to use the persistent home feature of Knoppix. I have either installed it or use it to save dead M$ machines where everything is temporary anyway. In order to save an Abiword document you'd need to mount a hard drive partition read-write and save it to that partition. That is of course if it isn't an NTFS drive.