It's beginning to look as if I've been trying to fix a sage implementation on a PC with a CPU that's incompatible with the VMWare binary of 3.4.1. But it's taken quite a bit of time to reach that conclusion (including that of kind folk on this forum).
If I'm to try to implement sage on another PC I'd like to avoid going through the same set of challenges only to reach the same point so is there anything I can do in advance to assess compatibility or do I just have to try each PC in turn? I also had it in mind to use sage across a set of pupil PCs but that won't work well if many (maybe even any) of them fall foul of compatibility too. So is there any CPU spec that PCs must meet to work with the binaries so, just like working out whether I could upgrade an operating system in advance of trying it, I can adopt sage and install it with confidence (or give up and use something else)? (I know I can theoreticcaly install a single instance of sage that pupils can use over the Internet but my attempt to install that didn't just fail but was disastrous. My Windows environment demands the VMWare Player which crashed my server and disturbed my firewall so that no reliable internet connection was possible. I ended up reinstalling the firewall and spending days trying to get its settings back to their previous state which had been finely tuned over 3 years to accomodate a wide range of products. While the failure was caused by VMWare and not Sage, the number of components to a sage installation introduces more potential points of failure than a single, installed application. And once again it was an example of an inconvenient incompatibility, hence my desire to understand as much as I can about compatibility issues in advance of an installation). Thanks Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
