Quote Originally Posted by trogdor
However, I notice something strange: On my hard drive, I see the partition /boot. Was that a remnant of Knoppix, or something from an old Linux installation on this computer?
I'd say it's most likely someting from an old Linux installation. Some distros do set up a separate boot partition (I know SuSE does). I very much doubt that Knoppix would do anything like this.