Just downloaded the lastest sage for windows virtual machine as well as the latest vmware to run it. Wow, 700Mbytes and yet no clear instructions on how to run it!
I tried double clicking on sage_vmx.vmx, then at the sage login prompt I typed "login" and then "sage" for the password, and then "sage" again at the "lo...@sage:~s" prompt. I don't know if that is the proper way to proceed, but anyway after that I see: Sage Version 3.4.2, Release Date: 2009-05-05 Type notebook() for the GUI, and license() for information. //usr/local/sage/local/bin/sage-sage: line 198: 3556 illegal instruction sage-ipython "s@" -i Does this illegal instruction indicate that it won't run on my computer, or have I done something wrong? Since this version seems to suggest that the SSE2 instruction set is required I checked my cpu with CHKCPU32.exe which indeed reports that my cpu does support SSE2 (although not SSE3). BTW, my very first attempt was just to type "notebook" at the first prompt which was what the readme seemed to suggest. Although no warnings were given it seems unlikely that any virtual machine was actually started. At least firefox did not think so as it didn't respond to the IP address that briefly flashed by the vmware window. Can someone guess what I might be doing wrong? Also are there any clear instructions on how to start this mess. (And why would someone upload 700Mbytes of stuff without installation instructions?) Thanks for any help you can provide. ~Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
