William,

Did you include the readme ? I don't see it after extraction.

Regards,
Bill Page.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:32 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Despite sage_vmware-*.zip being bar far the most popular Sage
> download, we will not be distributing Sage as a vmware image anymore.
>  Over the weekend I created a Sage distribution aimed at Windows users
> based on "puppy Linux" using Virtual Box:
>
>     http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/binaries/sage_vbox-4.1.2.zip
>
> It's a 659MB download.  However, once you download and extract the
> zip, the resulting files still only use 659MB.  If you then import the
> virtual machine into VirtualBox (follow the included readme), you'll
> use a total of just over 700MB disk space.  This is *much* better than
> the 3.5GB used by the extracted sage-vmware-*.zip!  Interestingly,
> it's also much better than the 1.5GB used by an extracted Sage install
> on Linux or OS X.
>
> What I need very much is for some people to test sage_vbox-4.1.2.zip.
> Please test and report back.
>
>  -- William
>
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washington
> http://wstein.org
>
> >
>

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