On 10/19/07, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I bet you just don't have openssh and ssh-keygen installed. > > The problem is that GNUtls is insanely dog slow crap at generating > > keys, and Sage falls back on gnutls when ssh-keygen isn't available > > systemwide. > > > > Well, I checked and openssh is installed and ssh-keygen is available > with the base install of andLinux but doing > > sage: notebook() > > the first time still takes a very long time (about 10 minutes!).
That's bizarre. It's not a general virtual machine problem, since vmware does the keygen instantly. > > > As I understand it, packaging andLinux with additional pre-installed > > > software (like Sage) involves just shutting down andLinux and > > > re-tarballing the installation directory. I have a feeling however > > > that this is going to be a rather big tarball with Sage included. I'll > > > give this a try. I also will try creating an NSIS install since in the > > > past I have had good results with it's compression methods. > > > > Thanks! > > > > I tried this several different ways to create the smallest download > possible but in the end the best I could do is about 318 Mbytes - a > rather large download but it includes both andLinux and Sage. NSIS > didn't work out. It choked on compressing a disk image file greater > than 2 Gb. 7-zip created the best result. 318MB is quite reasonable. The current SAGE-for-Windows via vmware is nearly 600MB. > > > Again, I really would like to hear from anyone else who has tried to > > > install andLinux. So far my experience involves only 4 Windows XP > > > boxes although they were all configured slightly differently. andLinux > > > ran "out-of-the-box" on all of these. > > > > Thanks for working on this. I'll try it once you upload a copy to > > sage.math. > > > > You can download it here: > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/page/sage-2.8.7-andLinux.exe > > This is a self extracting 7-zip file. To extract everything just run > the file then follow the instructions below: > > 1) In the 'andLinuxPreBeta' directory click on 'run_to_install.bat' > Click continue at the warning message. > 2) Then click on 'startup.bat' > You can right-click and use Send To/Desktop to create a start icon. > If you have a firewall enabled on Windows (e.g. Norton) you will > have to allow > Xming access to some standard ports. > An icon panel should appear at the top center of your screen. > 3) Click on the Linux terminal icon (leftmost icon) > Note: The windows C: drive is accessible as \c > 4) Start Sage > # cd sage* > # ./sage > 5) If desired, start the notebook > sage: notebook() > You should expect to wait a long time while the key is generated. > FireFox will open, running in Linux but displayed on the Windows desktop > > The installation can be simplified a little and the integration with > Windows improved using some techniques described on the 'andLinux' web > site but I think this is simple enough to get started. Let me know if > this works for you. Wow, excellent work. Thanks!! William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
