On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Bill Page <[email protected]> wrote: > > William, > > Did you include the readme ? I don't see it after extraction. > > Regards, > Bill Page.
I've attached it to this email, and uploaded a new version that contains it. -- William > > 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 >> >> > >> > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
This is Sage (see http://www.sagemath.org) distributed as a compressed VirtualBox appliance. It requires 1GB of free disk space and 1GB RAM to install and run. INSTALLATION: 1. Install the free open source program VirtualBox (70MB) for your operating system (Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, or x86 Solaris): http://www.virtualbox.org/ 2. In VirtualBox, click File --> Import Appliance, and select the file "sage.ovf", which is in the same directory as README.txt. 3. Click "Next", then "Import", and wait about two minutes. 4. From within VirtualBox, start the new virtual machine "Sage VirtualBox Appliance", then open your web browser in Microsoft Windows (or OS X, etc.) to the address that is displayed. YOUR WORKSHEETS: All of your worksheets are stored in the virtual machine in the file sage_root.vmdk. To download them all to a file download_worksheets.zip, click the link "Download All Active" from the list of Sage worksheets. The file download_worksheets.zip contains all of your worksheets. You can upload that zip file into another copy of Sage to open *all* of your worksheets. DEVELOPMENT: You cannot currently modify the copy of Sage included in this virtual machine, since it is stored in a read-only compressed filesystem, which saves a huge amount of space. SUPPORT: Join http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support or get free live help at http://www.sagemath.org/help-irc.html
