[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-05-06 Thread Lucio Lastra
People, here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/luciolastra/ I'll be uploading sagelwlcd images and the code sequences to create them. Please try the distro out to give me feedback (sagelw...@gmail) and help me make a better distro for everyone. Greetings, Lucio On 5 mayo, 23:58, Lucio La

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-05-05 Thread Lucio Lastra
Alfredo, now that I have my space, it would be really nice to cross links between accounts so people can choose the option that fits the best for them. Not to mention is also because we are part of the same. I'm not sure how to post a link to your webpage, otherwise I'll have done it. Greetings

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-27 Thread Lucio Lastra
Alfredo, awesome, I'll build it and provide the instructions and send William an email soon and also post the news here. Greetings, Lucio. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Alfredo Portes wrote: > > Hi Lucio, > > Sorry for not replying to your previous email. I work at a financial > company >

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-27 Thread Alfredo Portes
Hi Lucio, Sorry for not replying to your previous email. I work at a financial company (Bloomberg) and work has been crazy lately. If you have some time to build a new iso with the new Sage please do it, and post your version in the mailing list. We can upload the iso the sagemath. If you ask Wi

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-26 Thread Lucio Lastra
Alfredo, I sent you an email, many days ago talking about a livecd I built from scratch which is about 200 Mibs less in size and has the performance of sagelwlcd. I'm not sure if you read it and/or you are interested on it. I'm just telling you this because I don't have much time as I did before

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-12 Thread Lucio Lastra
Great! I have a doubt: how did you make to turn the cpio image into an ISO image? Greetings, Lucio. On 10 abr, 15:30, Jason Grout wrote: > Lucio Lastra wrote: > > Update: > > > I just downloaded and tried it out. Alfredo you are > > completely right, this is exactly what we need! > > > I'll f

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-10 Thread Jason Grout
Lucio Lastra wrote: > Update: > > I just downloaded and tried it out. Alfredo you are > completely right, this is exactly what we need! > > I'll follow the steps in the forum to get the eth0 up > and working and try out the mkxpud to see how it > works. > > This is really exciting. Thanks once

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-09 Thread Lucio Lastra
Update: I just downloaded and tried it out. Alfredo you are completely right, this is exactly what we need! I'll follow the steps in the forum to get the eth0 up and working and try out the mkxpud to see how it works. This is really exciting. Thanks once again for sharing your discovery! Greeti

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-09 Thread Lucio Lastra
Alfredo, I'm downloading it right now. It's size is really amazing :) I'll send some feedback in this week about how did it go. Thanks! Lucio. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Alfredo Portes wrote: > > Hi Lucio, > > I have not been able to test the image, sorry. I will try to test this > week

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-08 Thread Alfredo Portes
Hi Lucio, I have not been able to test the image, sorry. I will try to test this weekend. Today I saw this interesting project: http://xpud.org/ Looks ideal for a sage/notebook only interface, but I have not tried yet. Regards, Alfredo --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ T

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-08 Thread Lucio Lastra
Update: my friend took down the ISO image and its parts from his blog. All it remains are the instructions to build it posted here: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/4cfbbc60579d2e74# Hope you downloaded it or someone you know did. Greetings, Lucio. On 8 abr, 10

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-04-08 Thread Lucio Lastra
Alfredo, How are you? Have you had some time to check out the iso image? May I try some changes based on your distro? In that case it may take about a week or so. Greetings, Lucio. On 24 mar, 22:02, Lucio Lastra wrote: > Alfredo, > > I'm as glad as you to work together to achieve a better >

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-24 Thread Lucio Lastra
Alfredo, I'm as glad as you to work together to achieve a better distro in all senses, not to mention the honor it is to me to have this opportunity. I think the way you went choosing the method is perfect and that the key to improve the LiveCD is just to choose which packages to keep and the one

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-24 Thread Alfredo Portes
Hi Lucio, On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Lucio Lastra wrote: > I finally got your point. Sincerely I didn't know that such thing as > requesting > a particular feature in the LiveCD was possible, that's why I built mine. > > I also want to make clear that my intention is not to take your plac

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-24 Thread Lucio Lastra
Alfredo, I finally got your point. Sincerely I didn't know that such thing as requesting a particular feature in the LiveCD was possible, that's why I built mine. I also want to make clear that my intention is not to take your place or anyone's, I just built that distro and thought it would be ni

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-22 Thread Rob Beezer
Hi Alfredo and Lucio, Thanks to both of you for your very informative replies and all your great work on LiveCD's. I can imagine places with minimal hardware and minimal (or no) network access where these CD's (or USB drive installations) could be an invaluable help in the study of mathematics a

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-22 Thread Alfredo Portes
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Lucio Lastra wrote: > 4) Before I built this .iso I downloaded and tried Alfredo's 3.2.2 > version. The point is that when you boot it up it consumes around > 510 Mibs RAM (you can check it typing "free" at the command > line). After you drop caches  (as root in

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-22 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, *1)* and/or *2)* can be changed to your request seamlessly. *3)* Has more than one solution: If you *"burn" the .iso on a pendrive of the current version* (as recommended and explained in the bottom of the README file that comes along with three files you can find in here: http://groups.goo

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-21 Thread Rob Beezer
On Mar 21, 1:19 am, Lucio Lastra wrote: As said before I appreciate any feedback you can give me on the past release (comments, etc). The same in case people you know wants to try it out. Hi Lucio, Several suggestions and comments. I've got a basic idea of what is involved here, but can't say

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-21 Thread Lucio Lastra
Update: Rob I just downloaded SAGE 3.4 from that link and got the correct checksum. The next week, the newest version of SAGElwlcd will be realeased including SAGE 3.4. As said before I appreciate any feedback you can give me on the past release (comments, etc). The same in case people you know

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, sure! when i started creating this metadistro 3.4 wasn't available yet. The next release will be with it. If you want to add it yourself before I do, check the instructions I sent William to build the same .iso. He forwarded them to this list. You will have to download SAGE 3.4 from here:

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Rob Beezer
Lucio, That worked! Then a right-click to get the fluxbox menu up for anybody else who is playing along. Any plans to catch-up to 3.4? Thanks, Rob On Mar 20, 1:34 pm, Lucio Lastra wrote: > wait couple seconds and hit Enter and you are going to have > the bash prompt back again. > > ubu...@ub

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, after this appears: ubu...@ubuntu~: nm-system-settings: Adding default connection 'Auto eth0' for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net wait couple seconds and hit Enter and you are going to have the bash prompt back again. ubu...@ubuntu~: After that type: sudo startx and voilá! Greetings,

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Rob Beezer
Lucio, Thanks for the reply. Downloaded the iso and burned a new CD. Tested it on same 2 machines, plus one more: 6-month old Toshiba laptop, with admittedly screwy wireless hardware (twice) Older Dell desktop, wired networking (twice) 2-month old home-built desktop, wired networking (once)

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Update: I just downloaded the ISO form Diego's Blog, burn it into a CD and no problems, no data corruption, the same as the original at home. Booted it and did everything as described above. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@go

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, I wrote you about it just about a minute ago, but think I sent you the message to you exclusively, sorry. When you write back may you post the answer to the list? I'll download the .iso from Diego's blog, burn it and try it, maybe it got corrupted while he uploaded it. I got the original I

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Lucio Lastra
Rob, I just burnt the ISO on one CD (28x) ran it and no troubles. While testing it I used a 2 Gb pen drive and had any troubles either. The ISO has been tested on 4 different computers already with no problems at all. I just put the cd on the reader, reboot, when the menu comes out, I select En

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-20 Thread Alfredo Portes
If you dont want to burn the iso and have vmware player or workstation you can download: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/sagelivecd/sage-vmware-livecd.zip Edit the file SageCD.vmx where it says sage-3.4.iso to be the name of your iso. Then just run it inside vmware. You can also tr

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: FInally the link to download SAGElwlcd ISO!

2009-03-19 Thread Rob Beezer
This looks like a great idea, but has anybody had any luck with this? I've burned one CD, and on two very different machines, it has hung trying to setup networking at the same place - an "nm-system-settings" command, where I'm reasonable sure from the rest of the command that the "nm" refers to