Mark> I know this is probably a really basic question but can somebody Mark> please tell me how to mount my msdos partition. Thanks, Assuming that it lives on /dev/hda1, the first partition of the first hard drive, you can use mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt You might want to add some options as -o conv=auto, see the man page for mount. Best, -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd