Not sure I understand you. Knoppix displays mounted and unmounted hard disk partitions on the desktop by default.
What are you wanting to do to the file system?
Post the output of
fdisk -l
you will have to run above command as root.
i recently took the plunge and installed knoppix 5.1 onto my ageing tecra 520cdt, it sports 160mb ram 20gb ATA hd, and DVD drive and a whopping 166mhz MMX CPU.
i have recently installed 5.1 cd onto the machine, the CD/Live run shows all the usb (SDA1)
Floppy drive (FD0) and the other two partitions on HDA these are HDA3 and HDA4, where HDA2 is the 1.5GB swap and HDA1 is root, i can navigate through HDA1 via konsole, but cannot do anything to filesystem on desktop, is this disabled by default as is DMA on a HD install?
Not sure I understand you. Knoppix displays mounted and unmounted hard disk partitions on the desktop by default.
What are you wanting to do to the file system?
Post the output of
fdisk -l
you will have to run above command as root.

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