On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Greg Grunberg <grunb...@wans.net> wrote: > I am a (would-be) new user of Sage. My Athlon-processor desktop computer > uses Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 3. To protect > against malware, I use the Symantec Endpoint Protection program, which seems > to be an institutional version of the Norton internet security products. I > installed VMware Player 2.5.2 build 156735 (the most recent version). I > downloaded Sage 3.4 for Windows, checked its MD5sum, and unzipped the > downloaded file to directory d:\sage-vmware-3.4. > > When within that directory I click on sage_vmx.vmx, VMPlayer starts up and > eventually shows a "sage login:" prompt, which prompt is immediately > preceded by instructions to type one of the options (1) "notebook", (2) > "off", (3) "manage", or (4) "sage". Options (1) and (4) appear to be > broken: > (1) When I type "notebook" at the prompt, a screenful of information is > flashed too quick to read. The"sage login:" prompt then appears again, > together with the same instructions as before. Towards the end of that > briefly-displayed screen of information, I see an instruction to open > Firefox to some internet address; but because of the very short display time > I'm not able to read that address. > (2) Typing "off" at the prompt causes VMplayer to shut down, which is > the correct behavior. > (3) Typing "manage" at the prompt gets me to a "man...@sage:" prompt > from which I can become the Ubuntu root user by typing "sudo su". This also > is correct behavior. > (4) When I type "sage" at the prompt, I again get a briefly-displayed > screenful of information followed by a return to the login prompt. > > I have no problem running Sage on my notebook computer, on which are > installed the same versions of VMplayer and Sage. (The notebook computer > runs under Microsoft Windows XP Media Edition with Service Pack 3 and has > Symantec Endpoint Protection.) However I want to run Sage on my desktop > computer, which has a more comfortable keyboard and much more screen real > estate. > > Apparently the Windows version of Sage runs under an Ubuntu Linux virtual > machine. Any instructions should not presume expertise with Linux, an > operating system with regards to which I am a "newbie". Thanks in advance > for your help.
type login: manage and then type "sage". What does the error message say? Can you make a screenshot? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
