William, Thanks. It is working fine. I should have just did as I did in Linux. The upgrade.txt file confused me. Thanks for the rapid reply. I love Sage. Mike
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michael Madison > <[email protected]> wrote: > > William, Does that mean I don't have to down load sage 3.4.zip? Thanks > > Yes. I created sage-3.4 by just doing > > sage -upgrade > > on an existing sage-3.2.3 vmware image. Fortunately it worked perfectly. > > William > > > Mike > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:09 PM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > I seemed to be confused on how to upgrade Sage from 3.2.3 to 3.4 using > >> > vmware windows. The upgrade was easy on my linux notebook. > >> > > >> > I started the upgrade instruction from the new sage_vmx file on my > >> > windows machine. I followed the 1 to 8 instructions in the upgrade.txt > >> > file. I was not sure which swap-clean.vmdk file to replace in the > >> > sage 3.2.3 directory. I tried replacing the one from both the 3.2.3 > >> > directory and the 3.4 directory. When I start sage from my 3.4 > >> > directory it bounces me out of notebook to the main vmware page. If I > >> > start sage from the 3.2.3 directory by typing notebook. The notebook > >> > comes up saying it is Sage 3.2.3. I assume I lose all my old > >> > notebooks if I try to erase the in zipped sage directories and start > >> > over. Suggestions? Thanks Mike > >> > >> Wow. Those instructions were for creating an entirely new > >> sage-vmware-3.4.zip image. > >> If you just have your *own* sage-vmware-3.2.3, which you have been > >> using a while, > >> the *only* thing you have to do to upgrade is > >> > >> 1. Login as the "manage" user. > >> 2. Type "sudo su" > >> 3. Type "sage -upgrade". > >> > >> That's it. I did exactly the above to make sage-vmware-3.4 and it > worked > >> fine. > >> > >> William > >> >> > > > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > -- Michael R. Madison, Ph.D. (530) 346-2032 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
