William, Does that mean I don't have to down load sage 3.4.zip? Thanks Mike
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:09 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:07 PM, <madison.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I seemed to be confused on how to upgrade Sage from 3.2.3 to 3.4 using > > vmware windows. The upgrade was easy on my linux notebook. > > > > I started the upgrade instruction from the new sage_vmx file on my > > windows machine. I followed the 1 to 8 instructions in the upgrade.txt > > file. I was not sure which swap-clean.vmdk file to replace in the > > sage 3.2.3 directory. I tried replacing the one from both the 3.2.3 > > directory and the 3.4 directory. When I start sage from my 3.4 > > directory it bounces me out of notebook to the main vmware page. If I > > start sage from the 3.2.3 directory by typing notebook. The notebook > > comes up saying it is Sage 3.2.3. I assume I lose all my old > > notebooks if I try to erase the in zipped sage directories and start > > over. Suggestions? Thanks Mike > > Wow. Those instructions were for creating an entirely new > sage-vmware-3.4.zip image. > If you just have your *own* sage-vmware-3.2.3, which you have been > using a while, > the *only* thing you have to do to upgrade is > > 1. Login as the "manage" user. > 2. Type "sudo su" > 3. Type "sage -upgrade". > > That's it. I did exactly the above to make sage-vmware-3.4 and it worked > fine. > > William > > > > -- Michael R. Madison, Ph.D. (530) 346-2032 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
