Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 12G 3.3G 7.9G 30% / none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-HA! you didn't tell us you had scsi or sata drives in your puker! BAD newbie!!! bad... ;)
ok that changes things a bit. your fstab entry should appear something like this:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0
and the mount command:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
-- Mark
"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough to learn from his own stupidity."