Problems with study material

Below is the course material and when enter get total 0, I am running Ubuntu inside Oracle's VMware box. Can anyone put a light what is going wrong as the material supplied by the OU states the total should be 8 etc. kevin@VAIO:~$ ls -l /media
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-10-25 14:47 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-25 14:47 cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2009-10-25 14:47 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-25 14:47 floppy0 (Some direction advice of where do I find the answer why this isn't working?) Text book? etc?

looking at what you posted, I can't tell where the 0 is you're talking about, nor where you think the 8 should be. You'll need to post a lot more. Also, don't be surprised if much if any help is forthcoming - most of us prefer not to work on someone's homework - that's what school and teachers/profs are for. ;)

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Originally Posted by awatkins1971

(Some direction advice of where do I find the answer why this isn't working?) Text book? etc?

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Pointing in the right direction is fine.

You're not looking in the right directory.
If your CD is being automatically mounted correctly then it should be in the /media/cdrom0 directory, not the /media directory. What is the output of...

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ls /media/cdrom0

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However, there should be no reason at all that you have to use the terminal. When you insert a CD/DVD it should automatically appear in the left-hand pane of nautilus (the file manager).

I've done quite a few modules with the OU in the past, and I've never had any Linux compatibility issues. The material has all been pdf's, videos or html files so there shouldn't be a problem with accessing any of it.

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Originally Posted by awatkins1971

Below is the course material and when enter get total 0, I am running Ubuntu inside Oracle's VMware box. Can anyone put a light what is going wrong as the material supplied by the OU states the total should be 8 etc. kevin@VAIO:~$ ls -l /media
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-10-25 14:47 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-25 14:47 cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2009-10-25 14:47 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-10-25 14:47 floppy0 (Some direction advice of where do I find the answer why this isn't working?) Text book? etc?

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You're certainly going to need to give people some idea what this 0 and 8 actually are.

At the moment they are just numbers.



(Good luck with the OU course whichever it is - I did some of those prior to going fulltime at a university.)

Thank you to all those who gave me positive feedback, and an idea where and why it isn't working correctly, Some parts of the code I'm picking up other bits not so, but i'm learning what bits needs to go where?