I have beeen trying to install Knoppix on my Hard drive. I allocated about 3.8 GB partition for Knoppix and 580MB for swap. There was no problem with the installation but when i rebooted the computer it didn't allow me to login.

After reboot it shows the login screen. When I give my login name and the pswd, the screen blinks once and then show me the same window. However when i tried to login using command prompt I could access to all the directories. Obviously it is not that comfortable to work on non-graphic mode. I just can't imagine what went wrong.

By the way, I already have SuSE, Mandrake and XP running. Knoppix was installed in hda8.

Please help me to figureout the problem.

Thank you in advance.

NoviceW

A good place to have a look about this would be here.

It's been a while since I had a go with knoppix hard disc installs.

Presuming that yourself as a user say NoviceW, with a password etc, it could be a permissions thing if you didn't add yourself to the various groups. Don't forget, when running knoppix from the cd, you are by default logged in as user knoppix so,

Have you tried logging in with knoppix as the user name, with knoppix as the password? because if you can do that then you should be able to then do and change the root password for your install.

That's from memory, I may easily be wrong.

Once you're in as root, then start doing the changes and modifications to enable you to play with the system properly i.e. make sure you know which groups user knoppix is in, make yourself the same, then you can always make user knoppix hidden in the kde login manager, or delete it completely.

hope this helps

regards

John