On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, hypermonkey2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi again! > > I recently tried installing sage on a usb flash drive (2gig) to be > able to run sage on an Eee pc. However i run into trouble with the > file permissions. > Throughout the unpacking of the sage.tar.gz, there is trouble changing > ownership to uid 1000. > In a nutshell, i do not have ownership of my usb drive. how can i fix > this?
Can you take ownership of the USB drive? What exact command do you use to unpack sage.tar.gz? Why is it trying to set the UID (that's weird). Can you extract other tarballs? -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---