Unfortunately, the installer for SimplyMepis 6.5 was a bit simpler than other LiveCDs i've come across; that is, it didn't let me pick more than one drive to mount things. I have two harddrives: I store my settings on one harddrive, and i install Linux on the other. Since i don't bear knowledge on how to edit /etc/fstab, i want to know if it is possible to mount the partition that stores all my settings as "/home", and if so, how? Basically, make a big switch.

From your description, it sounds like you did an installation with everything on one partition. This means that your settings are now in /home/username on the new install. Do you also have settings on the other drive?

If you don't need any of the settings in the new install, you can simply mount the other drive at /home and it will use what is on the other drive. The basic entry in fstab is (assumes you 2nd drive (partition) is hdb1):
/dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 0 0
Simply use an editor such as nano to add this to /etc/fstab:
su (to become root)
nano /etc/fstab

"man fstab" and "man mount" for more details on how the syntax works

If you want to simply re-install, I think the option for multiple partitions IS there--typically, you have to select something like manual partitioning.

Take a look at the moving home article.

Thank you, the tutorial helped. All my old settings are in place.

Okay, problem: When i restart the computer, the previous settings for fstab gets restored, and i have to go back in, as root, and remount the partition that has my settings to /home. I noticed upon starting up that fstab gets "updated." Any way to get around this so i won't have to keep mounting things over and over again upon restart?

I had tried, at one time, to modify /etc/fstab, but noticed that it kept getting overwritten. I did not have time to dig through the code to see where this was happening, so I wrote a short script instead to mount the directories I am interested in. What I do is create a 3-5 line script called mount-partitions.sh, stick it in the /root directory. Then when I boot my system, I do Ctrl Alt F1, log into a non graphical root console, run the script ./mount-partitions.sh from root, then Ctrl Alt F7 to go to the graphical login banner, do my thing, and move on. Annoying, but I can do all of it in under a minute, so until I have time to engineer a better solution, this workaround gets the job done.

I can't be sure what you did, but in fstab, you should put the line of code that mounts your /home partition in the "static" part of fstab (above the comment that starts the "dynamic" section of fstab). If you made the mistake of adding the line of code to mount /home BELOW that comment line (inside the dynamic section of fstab), then it will keep getting overwritten each time you restart your computer.

Whoops! Yeah, i had it below, but now it's above; now everything mounts the way i want it to. Thanks for your help.

You're very welcome!