I helped a friend install 9.3 (off the 9.3 DVD) yesterday. It's his first excursion into Linux. He was really happy right up until he tried to access his FAT32 and NTFS partitions (by clicking on the links in My Computer). Every time we tried to access the FAT32 and NTFS partitions we would get an error that the devices were not found in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab. I didn't have a lot of time to try and debug the problem, so I just edited the fstab and created entries for the 2 FAT32 partitions (and added mount points in /media). Any CD or DVD we put into his CD drive or DVD drive is not automounted (and Konqeror is not automatically opened nor is there any popup asking what to do) but clicking on the link in My Computer will mount the CD/DVD (and directories based on the CD/DVD label are created in /media as expected). So, my question is... why would a clean default install of 9.3 have this problem connecting to FAT32/NTFS partitions? What is causing the problem? What can I do to make this work like every other 9.3 install I've ever done? Relevant hardware details: CPU - P3-600 256 MB RAM 2x WD 80 GB hard drives (brand new installed on the weekend) partitions hda1 = 33 GB NTFS hda2 = 10 GB FAT32 hda6 = 1 GB Linux swap hda7 = 32 GB Reiser hdb1 = 33 GB NTFS hdb2 = 10 GB FAT32 hdb5 = 33 GB currently unpartitioned space C.