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It's been some years and multiple distro's since I last used Mageia, but I've come back.

Today I downloaded and installed the current 700+ M 64 bit iso in an amd 64 computer

My problem at the moment is that all my documents are on cdrom's which I can't access the cdrom because it is not mounted and can't mount.

I tried using both nano and kate, as su, to edit the /etc/fstab

However in both cases I'm being rejected as Permission Denied.

So I'd appreciate knowing how I go about mounting my cdrom in the /etc/fstab , thus recovering my data.

I'm also unsure which /dev/ would be my cdrom.

I'm far more more comfortable using nano than kate.

On a secondary consideration because I can't remember my original user name (on a different email account) how do I go about regaining my original user name?

What desktop are you using, KDE, Gnome, something else? These days you should not have to be modifying fstab in order to mount an optical disk. All that should be taken care of with the install. Additionally, running a GUI program like kate or nano as root from an ordinary user login su'd in terminal is not supported and has not been supported for a long time. There is a kluge to get around that but I never use it so I have forgotten what it is. It is something related to dbus I believe. What DOES work is Menu -> Tools -> More -> Root Terminal and THEN lauch the editor of your choice. I am not sure what provides that to the menu. But if that is not available you could try using "gksu" instead of "su".

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gksu kate



But you really have something else not working here and you should not have to edit /etc/fstab in order to mount optical disks.

Sorry about not mentioning which desktop was installed. But I didn't know at the time...... I just blindly logged in. It's LXDE

And as for getting nano working. That too was simple.

urpmi nano

did the job.

I should have realised