[sage-support] Re: error message "permission denied" to launch Sage

2009-01-12 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Doug Hensley 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-s0

[sage-support] Re: error message "permission denied" to launch Sage

2009-01-12 Thread firstbase
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 withi

[sage-support] Re: error message "permission denied" to launch Sage

2009-01-12 Thread mabshoff
On Jan 12, 5:21 pm, "Doug Hensley" 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\d