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------- 1 sage sage 2.2G 2007-11-07 09:52 Ubuntu.vmdk I think it's supposed to be easy (and sometimes very desirable) to convert a filesystem in Windows from FAT32 to NTFS. This will make the filesystem journaled, which means the person won't see the "checking the file system" blue screen whenever Windows crashes and reboots. That said -- vmware has an option to split virtual disks into files that are all < 2GB. I will definitely fix the vmware machine when i get back to Seattle to only include files that are < 2GB. However, this will have to wait about a week. Anyway, many thanks for reporting this problem! > > > 2. if I nevertheless try to run sage via vmware with the slightly > > shortened version of Ubuntu.vmdk then the vmware player complains > > about the size of it, claiming that it's bigger than 2Gb and that it > > does not like this at all. > > > > That is no surprise, after all the are bits of the image missing. > > > It is only me that found this odd behavior? Any hint would be very > > welcome! > > I might be that you have a corrupted download, also. I would be great > if William could post some md5sum, sha sums of the images. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > Thanks, > > Roberto > > > > > -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
