It seems the DOS partitions are available only as root not as user. I tried vfat but it did not work. The partitions are visable IFF I login as root in console and manually mount. Manually editing menu.1st made the system menu work for both OS. The install set the extended partition active I reset with fdisk. Also since the install did not recognize the other os no icons for the user but root has them and automounts. Manually created /windows/c/ etc all are root:root 755 What is missing? FSTAB /dev/hda12 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda10 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda11 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/c msdos noauto,user 0 2 /dev/hda5 /windows/d msdos noauto,user 0 2 /dev/hda6 /windows/e msdos noauto,user 0 2 /dev/hda7 /windows/f msdos noauto,user 0 2 /dev/hda8 /windows/g msdos noauto,user 0 2 /dev/hda9 /windows/h msdos noauto,user 0 2 /dev/sda4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 MTAB /dev/hda12 / ext2 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/hda10 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 rw 0 0 shmfs /dev/shm shm rw 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,user=cwsiv 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/c vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda9 /windows/h msdos rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/d msdos rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /windows/e msdos rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /windows/f msdos rw 0 0 /dev/hda8 /windows/g msdos rw 0 0 /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | Carl William Spitzer IV | | cwsiv@linuxmail.org cwsiv@fuckmicrosoft.com | | member Orange County Linux Users Group http://www.oclug.org | \---------------------------------------------------------------/ ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!