[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-26 Thread rdl
Hi, http://sagemath.org/SAGEbin/vmware/ has been modified so that all files are 2GB. So you might want to try it out and see if it works on your system, and report back either way. actually I followed Jason's suggestion, namely I installed NTFS-3G on my linux box and then converted

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-16 Thread rdl
Hi all, thanks a lot for you quick replies, unfortunately I myself have been quite busy and could write back only today. more likely possibility is that you have a FAT32 formatted drive which can limit file size to 2GB. I had thought about that indeed but then I tried to unzip the file under

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-16 Thread William Stein
On Nov 16, 2007 6:07 AM, rdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, thanks a lot for you quick replies, unfortunately I myself have been quite busy and could write back only today. more likely possibility is that you have a FAT32 formatted drive which can limit file size to 2GB. I had thought

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-16 Thread Jason Grout
rdl wrote: Hi all, BTW, I know NTFS is better than FAT32 but I like to be able to write on my winblows partition from linux and AFAIK there's no way to do that with NTFS :-( Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has write-access to NTFS partitions using NTFS-3G (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ ). The driver

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-14 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 12, 9:54 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-12 Thread mabshoff
On Nov 12, 7:40 pm, rdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hello Roberto, I've got extremely happy when I've found out about this cool project, it was time that some powerful 'mathematica-like' open source package would see the light :-) :) I've installed successfully SAGE on my linux

[sage-support] Re: problems with sage-vmware-2.8.12.zip

2007-11-12 Thread William Stein
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.