Hi. I am a linux newbie and recently tried to check out knoppix live cd. There are three primary partitions in my hard drive and one extended partition. Two of the primary partitions run windows(98 and xp). The third partition is blank. Knoppix boots up alright but does not show the hard drive partitions on the desktop. I have tried mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1. Even adding an entry /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 to /etc/fstab does not work. I get error message saying "/dev/hda5 already mounted or /mnt/hda5 busy". By modifying desktop properties I was able to display unmounted hard drive partitions onto the desktop. On trying to mount hda1 from the desktop I get the error message "only root can mount". Trying to mount from root too does not work.
Please help