Thank you to everyone that tested the Live CD. > > I think it would be helpful if the README file contained > > more details on the exact setup required to get this to work. > > I tried burning the iso to a CD and rebooting. my suse 10.1 PC > > but could not see how to get sage to start. Thee live CD seems to > > dump you into a redhat root console (no graphics). > > The whole point is that it is not supposed to have any graphics. > > The idea is that it should dump you into a text console with the message > in BIG LETTERS (not the case right now): "Connect your web browser > to http://... to use SAGE."
I will do this. > Then you use *another* computer to > connect. The idea is that a person in a classroom could just boot > one computer like this, and everbody else in the room could use > their windows machines to connect to it. Another possibility is > that one runs the live cd via vmware (under windows), then uses > SAGE via a windows web browser. > > That said, when I tried it yesterday I had some problems: > > (1) The live cd is way too big -- this is because of the "big .so file" > problem I mentioned before. I've resolved that, for sage-1.4.1, to be > released today. Ok. > (2) The VMware config that it comes with boots up vmware but uses > the wrong type of networking interface (bridged), so it doesn't work > if the user isn't online already via another connection. That should > be changed to use host only networking under vmware, I think. Bridged is my favorite choice because it allows my vm to have an independent ip address from the host. Host only networking can be tricky because it setups a private network between the virtual machine and the host, and it depends on the setup you provided when installing vmware. I think the choice should be bridged or NAT. (I assume that a network is present (dhcp)). > (3) It seemed to serve SAGE on the wrong network port, so it didn't > work. And when it didn't work, the failure was silent. I do not understand what you mean by serving in the wrong network port. You dont get to connect to port 80 ?. I made the output of Sage to go to /root/sage.log. I guess that the machine did not get a proper ip address. > But it's a good start. Like David says, it would be nice if there were > a readme or copy of the readme also in the virtual machine when it > boots, which describes exactly where are all SAGE-relevant files are and > what they do. I will do this, probably will need some help for the readme file :-). I will also wonder if anybody burned the Live CD (not in the virtual machine) and if it worked properly Thank you for the feedback, Alfredo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
