OErjan,

I actually managed to get it going. What I did was boot from my
MandrakeMove CD. I have used it before but had forgotten that it
correctly spotted the Windows partition.

I copied the /etc/fstab file to a USB key and then rebooted with Knoppix

When it came up, the entry for the hd in /etc/fstab (knoppix) was something
like

/dev/hda /mnt/hda auto noauto,user ...... (sorry, can't remember the rest)

So I tried two things:

1) Added the line (from MandrakeMove) to the /etc/fstab in knoppix:
Code:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,0,0
That worked! Happy days. Then I thought I should be able to do it from the prompt and so...

2) I used this line on the prompt (having first deleted the entry I used in /etc/fstab
Code:
mount -t vfat -o codepage=850,umask=0,0,0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c
That also worked. Hurray. My faith in Linux is restored.

Now my question becomes why is it that MandrakeMove can spot the config correctly,
but Knoppix can't - especially given that it's supposed to be so good at hardware.

Finally, the CD-Burner seemed to sort itself out in Knoppix. And even if it doesn't, I
can still use the line from the /etc/fstab of MandrakeMove, which did work.
(Just out of interest, Knoppix and Mandrake lists the CD drives as hdc (dvd-rom) and hdd (cd-rw).

I will try to post the results which you asked for - maybe this is something that can be sorted
for future releases.

PS - I even tried booting to both the 2.4.x and the 2.6.y kernels with the same result, although
it made a difference with the USB key: 2.4 used /dev/sda1, 2.6 used /dev/usb1 (or some such)

Cheers,
Conor.