On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Doug Hensley <dahens...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > 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?
Either use Windows to change the permissions of the files, or re-download http://sagemath.org/bin/microsoft_windows/sage-vmware-3.2.3.zip I extracted the above archive, made the permissions much less restrictive than they were before, and remade the archive. > Or is sage not usable on Windows? Sage is usable on Windows. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
