On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Michael Madison <madison.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > William, Thanks. It is working fine. I should have just did as I did in > Linux. The upgrade.txt file confused me. Thanks for the rapid reply. I > love Sage. Mike >
Thanks for reporting this. I'll change that file to make its purpose clear, at least for sage-3.4.1. > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Michael Madison >> <madison.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > William, Does that mean I don't have to down load sage 3.4.zip? Thanks >> >> Yes. I created sage-3.4 by just doing >> >> sage -upgrade >> >> on an existing sage-3.2.3 vmware image. Fortunately it worked perfectly. >> >> William >> >> > 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 >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washington >> http://wstein.org >> >> > > > > -- > Michael R. Madison, Ph.D. > (530) 346-2032 > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
