Thanks,
A correction to the failure to evaluate.
On a "FRESH" system, such as a windoze user might try this on.
When sage is started a pop up requester appears asking for a new
password, but it is quickly overwritten by the browser image, so
it can be easily missed by someone not looking/waiting for it.
Of course I rushed into typing 2+2 <shift enter> without being
logged in.
Another thing is that there appears to be no jre - I suspect you
are trying to stay within a single CD ?
My "quick and dirty jre test is the first 3d plot in the tutorial.
This;
x, y = var('x,y')
plot3d(x^2 + y^2, (x,-2,2), (y,-2,2))
throws a yellow background and a link to the java web site.
Once I set up my networking I was able to get there, but on my
standalone UBUNTU (as well as the ones in Virtual Box) I have
found it quicker/simpler/easier (for newbie me) to use synaptics
package manager to install "weird" - icedtea, etc.
I need to put the .iso file on a USB memory card so I can write out
my config and changes. Tomorrow, a feast is calling me.
On Nov 25, 10:27 am, emil <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Emil,
> > I am the ABSOLUTE NOVICE here, so wherever is deemed appropriate
> > to hold it is fine with me.
> > If there is a sage-pre-alpha-test discussion group that would probably
> > be most appropriate (-:
>
> I think it is a different matter. It is not about pre-alpha. Because
> sage -testall
> passes on the system (it throws one error from the preparser, but this
> is because
> gcc is not included in the base distribution). Anyway the included
> sage consists just of the current
> ubuntu binaries, so this should be fine.
>
> It's more about politics. And which distribution methods to support
> and
> which not. I agree - its a bit "out of the box". Maybe its for sage-
> marketing?
>
>
>
> > By the way, I do TRUST Virtual Box. (VMware player ?, not so much)
> > It has provided very good isolation of UBUNTU virtual machines under
> > Windows Vista
> > and I have been able to build Sage from source within one.
> > It just needs enough memory, I am using 2900 or so meg and Vista
> > isn't running TOO badly.
>
> Well I use Sage live with 1 GB Ram, and it runs smoothly.
>
>
>
> > My keyboard is generic USA, locale settings USA, std defaults.
>
> I reallz don't know whats wrong here. I tried the us setting, but shift
> +enter works flawlesslz on my install.
> Does the evaluate link work though?
>
> > My comment about MBR corruption was inappropriate at best.
>
> I think the comments were perfectly appropriate and valid, because I
> didn't really stated what method I use.
> And I think the worries about breaking an existing system are serious
> concerns.
> I am just 1 person and it worked for me (on 2 different machines now).
> My opinion is that this is a very
> easy possibility and that it works fine. You may have different
> opinions and they may be equally well, or even better founded. All I
> do is to ask and invite the sage community to test this, maybe on some
> older boxes. At least I got 1 additional successfull installation
> (from Bill Hart at sage-windows :D)!
>
> I may quote:
> "It works great on my Vista 32 bit machine. That's actually the first
> time I've had a notebook running locally on a laptop! "
>
> emil
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