Okies have done that, now during bootup I can see that it says no uid and gid. Are u saying that if I wanted to mount the two hdd partitions so that user.... say user xolstis could login I would put

#/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 vfat auto, users,exec,ro,uid=xolstis,gid=xolstis 0 0

while editing the fstab I sometimes get errors in the /etc/fstab msg am wondering if the what I am doing is right, the spaces commas etc.

Also was wondering how do I rename a user. I created a new user called xolstis but having a whole heap of problems with that user. When logged on as xolstis my sound is having trouble. I can't seem to run kppp tho I have no trouble running kppp as user knoppix or root. Was hoping to just delete user xolstis (I don't know how to remove a user either) and rename user-knoppix to user-xolstis. Can I do that?

Thanks