Snow,

If you ran a HD Install of Knoppix, when you were installing, it should have asked you what a password was for the SuperUser, or Root account... You would have had to enter a password, and verify it by re-entering it a second time... Then the install would have asked you for the Knoppix account password, and would have, again, asked you to re-enter it.

Upon booting into your newly installed Knoppix, from the hard drive, I get (mostly) the same text boot stuff, maybe a little more text stuff than when I booted from the CD, but the same Linux Penguin in the upper left corner of the screen... Then, Knoppix should change from a text based screen, to a nice Debian Logo Graphics Screen. The Login Screen.

In the Login Graphics Screen, you have a choice... Select the "Account" you want to login to, on the left, and it should place the LOGIN NAME in a text box on the right, with a blank password text box below it. You enter the password for the account you selected in the password text box, and either press return, or enter, or click the GO, or it might say OK, and you should be logging into that account.

If by chance, you did enter a password during the install process, and don't remember it, I haven't a clue how you can reset it to something... (maybe someone else knows that one) But, this is how a "normal" login is accomplished after you do a hard drive install. I have Knoppix v3.3, if you do not have that save version, the login may be a little different, but I think the gest of it is about the same.

Hope this helps,
Cuddles