If you'd like to avoid this type of issue completely then using Bootcamp is a far better option, it also means Windoze runs at full speed ;) On 11 Aug 2014, at 02:22, Bill Gosper wrote:

Not exactly math-fun, but have mercy. I just had a fruitless phonechat with an Apple nonGenius. MacBook Pro freezes and requires powerbutton reboot when Virtual Box hangs well into loading XP. OK, Apple won't touch Virtual Box, but I hoped|conjectured it was just an ungraceful consequence of only 118G of unused hard drive, so I deleted many G and emptied the trash. Now there is only 117G free. While on the phone, I sacrificed an additional 2.85G Mathematica 8.0. Free shrank a little more.

Anybody?? --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun

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