I strongly believe that my problems in this thread
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6722

are due to the fact that my fstab is empty.

what should go in there

if my root is hda1 and my swap is hda2, and one fat32 partitiion on hda3? i have one dvd-drive, and one floppy drive

something like?

/dev/hda1 /root ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 vfat noauto,users,exec, 0 0
/dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom defaults 0 0

i dont know, what do you think?