The player appears to be working fine, but I can't upload any files to it. I can't synchronize because when I select the player and hit enter, I get this error.
I'm totally ignorant to Linux but I'll install the developer version and ask a collegue to have a look.
What if this directory doesn't exist? Do I simply create it?
Otherwise I guess I'll have to send it back ...

Frank

EDIT
does this look good?
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Player exited normally: 0
Player exited normally: 0
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# pwd
/empeg/bin
empeg:/empeg/bin# cd ..
empeg:/empeg# ls
bin fids0 fids1 lib var
empeg:/empeg# ls -l var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 220 13 Jun 23 2001 var -> ../drive0/var
empeg:/empeg# cd var
bash: cd: var: Not a directory
empeg:/empeg# cd ..
empeg:/# ls
bin drive0 empeg lib mnt sbin tmp var
dev drive1 etc lost+found proc swapfile usr
empeg:/# cd drive0
empeg:/drive0# ls
fids lost+found var
empeg:/drive0# ls -l var
srwxr-xr-x 32770 32768 32768 2147520512 Dec 14 1901 var