> This is great news, though I too wonder whether having to reboot and > fiddling with things at a low level would worry some potential users
It may, but to install software and have to reboot then was quite common when I used windows. I also agree that fidling with things low level is not for the average user, thats why this is done inside the exe installer. But it is transparent what it does. Until recently when something "sudolike" in Vista was introduced all sorts of programs "fiddled" without knowlege or control of the users on all possible levels. > (who would either be sysadmins who don't want to mess up their > computers, or non-technical users who are worried about having to fix > things if it breaks. I agree, those are valid worries and surely it is not suited for everyone and any system. But it is a choice. > > Do you have any sense of whether this would work on a Windows which is > installed already in a different partition? I have Mac, but can run > Windows using Parallels; I'm not sure whether that would work out > okay, though. It should theoretically work if it is in a different partition, but I personally always tested when the boot partiton was the "C:\" drive. I have no experience with Apple or Parallels so I cannot answer if this works and what would happen. Am I positive that parallels is a virtual machine? You can also take the normal iso image of the live CD to test it with the VM in a usual way. To run the exe installer in the Windows virtual machine is an experiment, but I am pretty optimistic that your windows install will survive it ;). > > - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
