Hey everyone. Wow, I just installed slack after trying almost every other distro and all I have to say is that I LOVE IT! It's so good and everything works better than any other system I've tried. The only question I have is that I created a normal user account with the adduser command. However, if I mount my NTFS drive, I can't view it as this user, only as root, it says permission denied. How do I change that so that I am an administrator? Also how do I set GDM to start when the PC boots up instead of the text based installed? Thanks so much.

You could always do sudo su and then mount the partition. or change /etc/fstab- search here and you'll find a recent thread that eyplains how to set that up. To boot to a graphical login you need to edit /etc/inittab. Edit the line that says:
id:3:initdefault: change the 3 to 4
However this is not a good idea unless you have a rescue flopy handy. If you have problems in X, using runlevel 4 will leave you in a loop where you may not even be able to logout and sutdown in which case you have to hit the power button. If you are using ext2 file system, you#ll probably only recover from this once or twice. reiser file system always seems to be able to recover.
It's not as elegant but much safer to boot into the CLI (Command Line Interface)

edit your /etc/fstab, here's mine for example :

/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,umask=0222,gid=wheel 0 0

hda1 is my ntfs drive and i made a directory "winxp" in /mnt

edit your inittab and change the default run level to 4, here :
id:4:initdefault:

hope it helps !!

Hey I changed my fstab but it still doesn't work. Someone told me it should be umask=222 others umask=6422, and that I need to add a ,users part to it. When I type mount /dev/hda1 under root it still mounts fine. Before as a normal user I couldn't switch into the /mnt/hd directory it would say permission denied. Now it lets me switch in but if I do a ls, it says ls: permission denied! What am I doing wrong?

I did exactly as above and it works !!