Forgive me for posting in this forum and mis-posting in the "Installing on an HD" forum earlier today. I have been attempting to use Knoppix to recover files from a hosed Debian install on a HDD. Knoppix boots fine, allows me to config network, but I cannot see the HDD partitions on the desktop, but I can browse the drive using testdisk. When I use the Personal Files browser (the little Red House on the taskbar), I can see hda1 as a bunch of colored boxes (ala Q-Bert), but when I click on it, I am told that "You do not have enough permissions to read the file file:///dev/hda1"

I changed the root password on Knoppix to the same root pass as I used on the Debian install. I am also told that the drive is mounted already if I attempt to mount it somewhere...although there is nothing in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab that says anything about hda1. This post is in line with what I have been experiencing. I ran cat /proc/partitions and fdisk -l /dev/hd? and both showed info for hda1 that I would expect.

At this point, I am starting to think that there is some kind of permission issue and that the drive is actually mounted...but, not shown because of some kind of permission issue. I am lost.