Hi, Instead of typing "sage" at the login prompt., type "notebook". This is before you would normally even start SAGE in the vmware machine.
William On 7/2/07, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I am brand new to Sage, and I have been struggling today to get the > notebook working. If anyone can help, I would be very appreciative. > I downloaded both the VM player and Sage 2.6 onto my Windows XP > machine today. As far as I can tell, the command line is working fine. > If I log in as 'sage,' I can replicate the examples from the tutorial, > etc. If I use the notebook() command, the VM player tells me to open > http://localhost:8000. However, right after the instructions on > pressing ctl-c twice to get out of the server, it subtly includes a > line saying "http://localhost:8000: No such file or directory." Being > optimistic, I open Firefox and type in this URL anyway, but Firefox > tells me, "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at > localhost:8000." > If, on the other hand, I log in as 'notebook', I'm told to open > http://192.168.112.128. This does load the notebook quickstart. From > here, I can add new worksheets (by appending a /worksheetname to the > URL), but I can't do much of anything else. Specifically, I can't type > anything into the box that seems to be the command prompt. I have > tried clicking on it, double-clicking, right-clicking, mousing over > (which highlights the box, but still won't let me type), pounding on > the keyboard in helpless frustration... Also, most of the blue > hyperlinks don't appear to do anything (including the "new" and > "delete" links in the worksheet pane). > I feel like I must be missing something basic and obvious. If so, I > apologize for being dense. But thanks in advance for any guidance you > can give me. > > Benjamin > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
