[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-26 Thread rdl
Hi, > http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/vmware/ > has been modified so that all files are < 2GB. So you might > want to try it out and see if it works on your system, and report > back either way. actually I followed Jason's suggestion, namely I installed NTFS-3G on my linux box and then convert

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-21 Thread William Stein
On Nov 12, 2007 10:40 AM, rdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got extremely happy when I've found out about this cool project, > it was time that some powerful 'mathematica-like' open source package > would see the light :-) > > I've installed successfully SAGE on my linux machine in no time bu

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-16 Thread Jason Grout
rdl wrote: > Hi all, > BTW, I know NTFS is better than FAT32 but I like to be able to write > on my winblows partition from linux and AFAIK there's no way to do > that with NTFS :-( Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has write-access to NTFS partitions using NTFS-3G (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ ). The dri

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-16 Thread William Stein
On Nov 16, 2007 6:07 AM, rdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > thanks a lot for you quick replies, unfortunately I myself have been > quite busy and could write back only today. > > > more likely possibility is that you have a FAT32 > > formatted drive which can limit file size to 2GB. > > I

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-16 Thread rdl
Hi all, thanks a lot for you quick replies, unfortunately I myself have been quite busy and could write back only today. > more likely possibility is that you have a FAT32 > formatted drive which can limit file size to 2GB. I had thought about that indeed but then I tried to unzip the file under

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-14 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 12, 9:54 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 8:48 PM, mabshoff > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should try 7zip (which is open source) or a trial edition of > > Winzip. Another, more likely possibility is that you have a FAT32 > > formatted drive which c

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-12 Thread William Stein
On Nov 12, 2007 8:48 PM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should try 7zip (which is open source) or a trial edition of > Winzip. Another, more likely possibility is that you have a FAT32 > formatted drive which can limit file size to 2GB. That is the problem, as the file is 2.2GB. -rw--

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-12 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 12, 7:40 pm, rdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello Roberto, > I've got extremely happy when I've found out about this cool project, > it was time that some powerful 'mathematica-like' open source package > would see the light :-) > :) > I've installed successfully SAGE on my lin