Inexperienced with shell, however, trying to learn how to use terminal to fix mount problem.

[Steven Vollom]

My sdb 5 partition is unusable.  sdb1 is the partition that contains my 
OS.  sdb5 is empty with an access denied.  Additionally, sda1 is ext3 
bootable 15gb I would like to put Intrepid in there, but haven't been 
able.  Below is my current fdisk -l.
This stuff is above my head; perhaps not after today.

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x47a447a3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1824    14651248+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1825       24792   184490460    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           16523       24792    66428775   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            1825        2006     1461852   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7            2007       16522   116599738+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xffffffff

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        2591    20812176   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            2592        2856     2128612+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3            2857        9964    57095010    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            2857        9964    57094978+  83  Linux

If it helps to know, sda2 and sda5 are storage.  sdb5 is intended 
storage.  I am sure you can probably see that partitioning and mounting 
were done by an inexperienced user with little knowledge of how to 
perform the task.  It was done by experimentation and mostly works.  
Thanks for any help you may provide that straightens it out and makes 
sdb5 functional.  Also, I would just love to drop a live Intrepid CD in 
the ROM and have it request install on sda1.  Thanks in advance for your 
help and patience with me.