On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:29 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > 3. One could probably replace the "expand to 2GB" vmdk by one that > expands larger.
Yes, exactly what I meant. > >> Using a Windows file system shared folder does not work because it >> does not support linux symbolic links. :-( > > It depends what you want to use it for, I guess. But yes, Windows > doesn't have linux symlinks, which is definitely a problem. > I was thinking of using it to install a "writeable" version of Sage by copying from /sage. This does not work because the Sage distribution requires symlinks. Otherwise it works fine to access files and save them in a manner accessible to windows. >> >> In the meantime I created a new .vdi disk as workspace and I am >> playing with that. After copying /sage over to this disk I tried >> './sage -upgrade but something here is still read-only it seems... >> >> # ./sage -upgrade > > Look at SAGE_ROOT in the file "sage" -- you're still running the old > version from the read only file system. Just edit SAGE_ROOT to your > new location. > Ah yes I forgot that. Now it works ... up to this point: ./install: line 356: make: command not found real 0m0.008s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s Error building Sage. Error installing Sage! # So now I must look for the development tools but these are apparently packaged differently as sfs files. How much more would these add to the size of the Sage image? BTW, how do I kill that annoying "sage-ensure_notify" pop-up message? I deleted the crontab entry but its still live. > > That is correct. I hope somebody creates a completely separate > virtual machine aimed at what you want. I think an upgradable and package installable version of Sage for Windows+VirtualBox would be desirable. Among other things this requires that the Sage shell include gcc and other tools required for installing spkgs. > Maybe you just want to run a full Linux under Windows + VirtualBox > though, for which there are already oodles and oodles of existing options? > No, that's not very interesting unless for some reason you have no alternative. If you need windows then I think it is better to run Windows on VirtualBox under Linux. I do that whenever I can these days but unenlightened corporate IT managers sometimes do not allow it. :-( Regards, Bill Page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
