slightly more helpfully: if I do each separately I get
sf_Auxiliary_files
0
and:
ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory
512
On Saturday, April 6, 2013 4:50:50 PM UTC+2, GaryMak wrote:
>
> Hi - sorry for delay - thanks - I must have done something wrong - I get:
>
> sf_Auxiliary_files
> ls: cannot access /media/sf_Auxiliary_files: No such file or directory
> 512
>
>
>
> On Saturday, April 6, 2013 1:20:37 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote:
>>
>> Some of the docs are out of date (sorry, feel free to update the wiki as
>> necessary) but the shared folder section should work. And does work for me.
>> Whats the output of
>>
>> os.system('ls /media')
>> os.system('ls /media/sf_Auxiliary_files')
>>
>> on your machine? You should get a list of files...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, April 6, 2013 12:10:20 PM UTC+1, GaryMak wrote:
>>>
>>> OK ... this is a very sad day ... I am finally going to have to admit
>>> publicly now that I cannot even follow the instructions at Section4 of
>>> http://wiki.sagemath.org/SageAppliance in order to get my VM to be able
>>> to see python scripts I download from the kind people in this GoogleGroup
>>> ... I attribute this to being born in the 1960's, and never having looked
>>> at a computer from the mid-eighties until recently ... but whatever the
>>> reason, typing this: (having put the file in the folder named
>>> "(dropbox/etcetcetc)/Auxiliary_files", restarted the machine etc etc)
>>>
>>> load "/media/sf_Auxiliary_files/set_of_tuple_of_finite_field.py"
>>>
>>> gets me this:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>> File "_sage_input_5.py", line 10, in <module>
>>> exec compile(u'open("___code___.py","w").write("# -*- coding: utf-8
>>> -*-\\n" +
>>> _support_.preparse_worksheet_cell(base64.b64decode("bG9hZCAiL21lZGlhL3NmX0F1eGlsaWFyeV9maWxlcy9zZXRfb2ZfdHVwbGVfb2ZfZmluaXRlX2ZpZWxkLnB5Ig=="),globals())+"\\n");
>>>
>>> execfile(os.path.abspath("___code___.py"))
>>> File "", line 1, in <module>
>>>
>>> File "/tmp/tmp3BK76S/___code___.py", line 2, in <module>
>>> exec
>>> compile(u'sage.misc.preparser.load(sage.misc.preparser.base64.b64decode("Ii9tZWRpYS9zZl9BdXhpbGlhcnlfZmlsZXMvc2V0X29mX3R1cGxlX29mX2Zpbml0ZV9maWVsZC5weSI="),globals(),False)
>>> File "", line 1, in <module>
>>>
>>> File
>>> "/home/sage/sage-5.7/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/misc/preparser.py",
>>>
>>> line 1802, in load
>>> raise IOError('did not find file %r to load or attach' % filename)
>>> IOError: did not find file
>>> '/media/sf_Auxiliary_files/set_of_tuple_of_finite_field.py' to load or
>>> attach
>>>
>>> I assume it's not the usual windows-versus-Mac forward-slash-v-backslash
>>> nonsense, since you guys seem to have taken care of that in your parsers ...
>>>
>>> In return for forcing someone out of pity to answer such an obviously
>>> (to you guys) dopy question, I hereby promise to re-write that help page
>>> slightly (once I know the answer) in terms even I can follow ...
>>>
>>> thanks, as always ....
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:11:54 PM UTC+2, kcrisman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here's a question about the VirtualBox solution for Volker or others.
>>>>
>>>> How possible is the following lab scenario?
>>>>
>>>> 1. Student chooses a computer from a (nightly wiped) lab
>>>> 2. Student logs on to computer
>>>> 3. Student open a VirtualBox Sage that is already installed (on the
>>>> propagated image in the lab), which automatically starts Sage (no " power
>>>> on Sage-x.y.z by selecting it and clicking 'Start'." as on the
>>>> SageAppliance wiki page)
>>>> 4. Student puts in a flash drive, and easily surfs to their flash drive
>>>> on the "Upload" page of the server (because "enable shared folders"
>>>> instructions have been done ahead of time somehow)
>>>> 5. Student works on their worksheet
>>>> 6. Student downloads worksheet as sws, again to their flash drive
>>>> (currently I don't see a way to choose where to download them, they just
>>>> do
>>>> to the default place)
>>>> 7. Student ejects zip drive
>>>> 8. Student leaves for dinner or checks FB or does whatever students do
>>>> nowadays
>>>>
>>>> In particular, I'm wondering whether
>>>>
>>>> * having Sage open as soon as one open the VirtualBox, not having to
>>>> choose it
>>>> * having the shared folder enabling done ahead of time, possibly
>>>> universally
>>>> * having the files be easy to find
>>>>
>>>> is possible. /media/sf_<volume name>/filename seems forbidding...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, and my apologies if these questions are obvious from the
>>>> SageAppliance documentation or ask.sagemath answers; I felt like this was
>>>> subtly different, but maybe it's not. What I'm hoping is that a little
>>>> lab
>>>> admin wizardry could make the VirtualBox solution nearly like having other
>>>> programs to double-click. Maybe there could even be a script that opened
>>>> the VirtualBox with Sage at exactly 9:55 for a 10:00 class...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> - kcrisman
>>>>
>>>
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