Quote Originally Posted by iamchachi
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"
You can't browse the files from /dev/hda1. You need to browse from where that partition is mounted, usually /mnt/hda1 or /media/hda1.

If it's not mounted yet, you can do this from Konsole to mount it:
Code:
sudo mkdir /hda1
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /hda1
And after that try to browse the /hda1 directory

Quote Originally Posted by iamchachi
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.
Did you check the output from mount command? Does it say anything about hda1? For me it gives something like
Code:
knoppix@0[knoppix]$ mount
...
/UNIONFS/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type ext2 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
This tells me that /dev/hda1 is mounted at /mnt/hda1 and so I can browse the files from there. (Just ignore the /UNIONFS on the beginning of that line).