I have a second partition on my primary drive. If I remember correctly when I had 5.3 I just created a directory in /mnt and added a line to the /etc/fstab. So when I installed 6.0 I created a directory called hda2 and added the line to fstab /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda2 ext2 defaults 1 1 (even tried 0 0 ) When I do this I get an error message on boot that asked my if I want to control D for normal boot (which won't work) or enter root password for maintenance. I do this and edit the fstab line I added and reboot. It works OK. I used fdisk -L to verify the partition is in fact hda2. Has mandrake 6.0 changed something that causes the automount to work different ? Thanks, Rich