Hello.

I am a super nube as far as linux goes. I have been playing with various graphical and text forms for about a year or 2 on and off and I absolutely love knoppix however...

I am having several showstopping problems with it. For now I deal with the fact that on 2 different computers the downloaded knoppix 3.1(beta kdd) and 3.2 (I think) are unable to mount a partition on one computer and now 3.2 cannot mount a partition on mine.

The error message I recieve (verbatim for one device):
Could not mount device.

The reported error was:

Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/hdb1,

or too many mounted file systems

<end of error>

I looked through the config files, I believe filesystems in etc and vfat is listed and doesn't have nodev in front.

I checked etc/fstab and it lists the 2 drives/partitions that won't mount with the fallowing information (where __ is a letter and number):
/dev/hd__ /mnt/hd__ auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
It took me a while but I managed to activate the konsole (love the play on words) for superuser and tried typing mount -t vfat <device> and all i got was instructions on how to view the manual (very helpfull info but no progress).

As far as too many file systems (don't know what that means exactly) but I was able to mount other drives fine.

After searching around and reading a few posts (all that seemed apply in my searches) I found no fixes. I am at an utter loss and am in need for this to work as I have a seperate computer problem that I am trying to mount this drive to fix.