[sage-devel] Re: better way of distributing sagemath for debian/ubuntu

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Polte
The squashfs files are now uploaded to here: http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/frank/sagemath/squashfs/ Frank Polte -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more

[sage-devel] Re: better way of distributing sagemath for debian/ubuntu

2010-02-03 Thread Frank Polte
I made 2 new wiki pages: http://wiki.sagemath.org/SagemathLive http://wiki.sagemath.org/UsingSquashFS I hope this helps. On 3 Feb., 03:11, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Frank Polte wrote: > > >> I use squashfs + unionfs for the virtualbox Sage distri

[sage-devel] Re: better way of distributing sagemath for debian/ubuntu

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Polte
like doing it at all. If this is not too difficult I can do that. It is an ubuntu system isn't it? The unionfs is for installing additional packages to sagemath? I will try to make it. Frank Polte -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from thi

[sage-devel] Re: better way of distributing sagemath for debian/ubuntu

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Polte
ommunity. > > also don't understand the part about speed and parallelization. On all > > my PCs the extraction speed is limited by disk I/O ... copying 5 files with 1.4GB or 1 File with 1.4GB is very different. And the sqfs is just 390 MB or 640 MB as you wish. Thank you very

[sage-devel] Re: better way of distributing sagemath for debian/ubuntu

2010-02-02 Thread Frank Polte
it or you have to convert it later Frank Polte P.S. This is the output on my dual P4 Xeon 2.4 Ghz Desktop (built year 2000). Creating a sqfs file is faster than to copy the files to another harddisk. But it costs quite a lot of computing power, what copying doesn't need. terminal comman