unable to view/access my win98se(fat32) partitions

[Gozar]

hi,
i am a newbiee in the world of linux but like knoppix so much that i decided to install it on my hd. the problems rise from here only, i am having a 2.4 ghz prossesor with intel 845gvad2 motherboard and 256mb of DDR RAM with two harddisks(40 gb samsung &4gb seagate) so i installed knoppix on my smaller hd with a 256mb swap and the rest as ext2.
1. After many & i was able to install knoppix on it with lilo but after bios data check each time i got a message :-
you passed an undefined mode no press [return] to see available mode
press space to continue or wait 30 secs. i am using a samsung 17" syncmaster 753s.
2.further more my linux partitionn remains read-only even after mount command when i login as user and is read-write as root after using mount command(also with sudo when as user)

I have a nvidia graphis card with tv-out. When the tv-out cable is plugged in i get the same message. If i unplug the tv-out cable the message disapers!
Perhaps this is the problem!

i have 5 partition of fat32
3. After login i was unable to found my fat32 partitions from my second drive.
when running fdisk-l i got
disk /dev/hdc:4327mb
Device Boot ID System
/dev/hdc1 * 83 linux
/dev/hdc2 82 linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order

disk /dev/hda:40.0gb
Device Boot ID System
/dev/hda1 * b w95fat32
/dev/hda2 f w95 ext'd(LBA)
/dev/hda5 b w95fat32
/dev/hda6 b w95fat32
/dev/hda7 b w95fat32
/dev/hda8 b w95fat32

any help is welcomed
Thanks in advance

I asume that the problem is that for some reason there's not created a proper /etc/fstab file.
(Perhaps hda was unpluged when you installed knoppix.)

For eatch partition you have to create a line in /etc/fstab witch looks like this:

#Partition		#Mountpoint	#Filesystem	#Options
/dev/hda1		/mnt/hda1		vfat			noauto,users,exec,umask=000	0	0

Exept for /devhda2 because it's the contanor for hda5 to hda8
So hda3 would look like this:

/dev/hda3		/mnt/hda3		vfat			noauto,users,exec,umask=000	0	0

As you can see you only have to change the partition and the mount point.
The mount point is a dictory, and that must exist, else mounting fails!