Thank you for offering some help on this.

Being so knew to Linux, I have no idea of the nomenclature. I didn't know what "mounting a partition" (or a drive) means, or what is the significance of these things.

What I did was, deleted the floppy icon and then recreated by right-clicking on the desktop and set the floppy icon from scratch.

It seems to work now and I can finaly read the html file that I had saved to the floppy from Win2k.

P.S. The floppy is all I needed. Being so new to Linux (and knowing nothing about security and firewalls etc), I am not even thinking of linking into the win2k drive from knoppix at this time. (and as a matter of fact that drive is deliberately, physically unplugged)