Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 765 8432 615932 10 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 * 8433 9729 10418152+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5 765 827 506016 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 828 2010 9502416 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 * 2011 5834 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda8 5835 8432 20868403+ b W95 FAT32
sorry about the alignment it screwed up. I want to mount hda5 so that when i type in /mnt I'll have my hda5 there as a clickable icon. I can't remember how to get it to mount automatically when mandrake 10 boots up. Also Linux can write to Fat32 right.

Why do you want to mound hda5? it is a swap partition!

anyway to mount a filesystem you need to make a directory in /mnt called windows or whatever

then

mount -t auto /dev/hda? /mnt/windows

You can mount automatically by editing /etc/fstab

doesn't work. It keeps saying it doesn't support fat32. Is this true but it works with my usb pen drive. plus it keeps locking my access to the dir i mounted the partition to.