What I think is the newest, 3.2.3. There is only one user. The files aren't read-only. But I may have lucked on a workaround. Launch VMWare first, and run it as "administrator". VMWare asks you if you would like to browse for virtual engines. Say yes, and choose the sage executable file from within the directory housing Sage. It works, at least to the play with the buttons stage; I can add fractions. Lucky me!
On Jan 12, 8:39 pm, mabshoff <michael.absh...@mathematik.uni- dortmund.de> wrote: > On Jan 12, 5:21 pm, "Doug Hensley" <dahens...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > > On a 2007 Windows Vista machine, HP, plenty of ram and hard drive space, I > > downloaded VMware and sage. An attempt to run sage hits this instant brick > > wall: > > > "Error while powering on: Unable to open file "C:\Program > > Files\Sage\disk-s001.vmdk": Insufficient permission to access file. > > > Is there any way to get Microsoft Vista to grant permissions of this sort? > > Mhh, this is a vmware problem. Can you check if the files are > readonly? Another problem might be that you unpacked it as a different > user and or in a directory where the current user does not have write > permissions. If you have a FAT partition you might want to try copying > the image over there. > > > Or is sage not usable on Windows? > > The VMWare image is mostly meant for Windows users, so it does work in > most cases. Googling for the error message did not reveal anything > current. > > So: What VMWare release are you running? Can you get any other image > (in case you have one) to run? > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
