Hello Robert, If you have more then 1.5 GB of RAM in your machine you might try my Live CD based on Puppy Linux (698 MB) download.
Download: http://www.filehosting.at/file/details/111993/SageLive_Full.iso I published it on the sage edu channel recently. In the meantime I have solved some memory related issues and will post a version which should run on "rather normal" end user spec machines (tested now with 1 GB RAM and 1.6 Ghz processor, should also runs with 512 MB but not tested) soon. regards Emil On Feb 16, 7:41 am, David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 February 2010 02:01, Robert Veelenturf > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 14, 5:19 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> What processor does your PC have in it? It is possible the Sage DVD is > >> compiled > >> assuming the CPU supports certain instructions, such as SSE, which if your > >> CPU > >> lacked, would cause a problem. I don't know anything much about the DVD, > >> or how > >> it was compiled, but it might be helpful if you state the CPU type. > > >> Dave > > > Partial CPU-Z report output for the older of the 2 machines: > > > Processor 1 ID = 0 > > Number of cores 1 (max 1) > > Number of threads 1 (max 1) > > Name Intel Celeron > > Codename Northwood > > Specification Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz > > Package (platform ID) Socket 478 mPGA (0x2) > > CPUID F.2.9 > > Extended CPUID F.2 > > Brand ID 10 > > Core Stepping D1 > > Technology 0.13 um > > Core Speed 2193.4 MHz > > Multiplier x FSB 22.0 x 99.7 MHz > > Rated Bus speed 398.8 MHz > > Stock frequency 2200 MHz > > Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2 > > L1 Data cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte > > line size > > Trace cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative > > L2 cache 128 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte > > line size > > FID/VID Control no > > > Bob > > I know the Celeron is quite an old processor, but since your chip > supports MMX, SSE and SSE2, I would have thought that is a > sufficiently capable processor to run Sage. Does anyone know what the > iso image needs in terms of instruction set from the CPU? > > On my own machine, which has a newer Xeon processor, 'iasinfo' on > Solaris reports the following are supported: > > drkir...@hawk:~$ isainfo -v > 64-bit amd64 applications > sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp cx16 mon sse3 pause sse2 sse fxsr mmx > cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu > 32-bit i386 applications > sse4.2 sse4.1 ssse3 popcnt tscp ahf cx16 mon sse3 pause sse2 sse fxsr > mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu > > Does anyone here know if the DVD requires SSE3 for example, which > would cause a failure with this Celeron? > > Dave -- 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 URL: http://www.sagemath.org
