Install Arch on five clients using ssh?

Hi all,
We are trying to install arch on five machines using ssh for our clusters lessons, using VirtualBox. We have arch installed on a machine called "Master" and from this we are using PXE server to load Arch (core) iso on the clients. PXE runs fine but for our purpose we have some troubles.
First of all, we need to boot arch directly, without "Options screen" (screen where you can choose between Load arch, load another OS, reboot, etc...), we NEED to boot arch without user intervention. Then, we need to run up ssh server automatically (maybe parsing any option on PXE config file). And the last issue is to login on client machine as root.
If we run sshd and allow to connect giving permissions on /etc/hosts.allow file and then try to login on client from Master as root, we can't do this because root has no password but ssh requieres it, this is a problem.
In short, we need at least to solve this problems:
* Load arch image directly, skipping load screen.
* Run sshd on startup and allow access
* Be able to login as root from our "Master" machine
Any idea of that? We are thinking about to make an image of our Master machine and use it to offer with PXE, but I think this is a bad idea because client machines has not partitions and our fstab file will try to mount filesystems and this is a problem.
Thanks for your help, god will be grateful for it and kill no more kittys and sorry for the brick!
Last edited by Sepho (2010-12-02 20:56:27)

OK after my 4th attempt, i got it
My initial situation
fdsik -l (GPT table format)
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 1 26 204819+ ee GPT
/dev/sda2 26 36747 294963432 af HFS / HFS+
/dev/sda3 * 61682 77826 129678336 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 36747 61438 198331055 83 Linux
So, I had Ubuntu running on sda4 (ext4).
What I did
1. Installed rEFIT on Mac OS X, and after two reboots it showed up.
2. In the rEFIT menu, Synchronized with the Partition tool my MBR and GPT table.
3. Opened Gparted on an ubuntu live cd, in order to format my ext4 partition
4. Installed Arch using the normal installation procedure, but I skipped the partitioning section, I did only the file system mountpoints step, selecting my sda4 partition.
5. Installed grub (not grub2) on /dev/sda, the mbr (not /dev/sda4), and activated the windows section in menu.lst
6. After reboot, I selected from rEFIT the Windows logo (linux logo doesn't work), through the windows logo i get in the standard grub menu, where I can select Windows or Arch!
Now I'll remove rEFIT and boot trough normal mac os x's bootcamp tool. (if you select windows you get in the grub menu)
Hope this helps someone!

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# want gdm to kill/restart the server, turn this on
#AlwaysRestartServer=false
# User and group used for running gdm GUI applicaitons. By default this
# is set to user gdm and group gdm. This user/group should have very
# limited permissions and access to ony the gdm directories and files.
User=nobody
Group=gdm
# To try to kill all clients started at greeter time or in the Init script.
# doesn't always work, only if those clients have a window of their own
#KillInitClients=true
LogDir=/var/log/gdm
# You should probably never change this value unless you have a weird setup
PidFile=/var/run/gdm.pid
# Note that a post login script is run before a PreSession script.
# It is run after the login is successful and before any setup is
# run on behalf of the user
PostLoginScriptDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/PostLogin/
PreSessionScriptDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/PreSession/
PostSessionScriptDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/PostSession/
DisplayInitDir=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Init
# Distributions: If you have some script that runs an X server in say
# VGA mode, allowing a login, could you please send it to me?
#FailsafeXServer=
# if X keeps crashing on us we run this script. The default one does a bunch
# of cool stuff to figure out what to tell the user and such and can
# run an X configuration program.
XKeepsCrashing=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/XKeepsCrashing
# Reboot, Halt and suspend commands, you can add different commands
# separated by a semicolon and gdm will use the first one it can find
RebootCommand=/sbin/shutdown -r now "Rebooted from gdm menu."
HaltCommand=/sbin/shutdown -h now "Halted from gdm menu."
SuspendCommand=/usr/bin/apm --suspend
# Probably should not touch the below this is the standard setup
ServAuthDir=/opt/gnome/var/gdm
# This is our standard startup script. A bit different from a normal
# X session, but it shares a lot of stuff with that. See the provided
# default for more information.
BaseXsession=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Xsession
# This is a directory where .desktop files describing the sessions live
# It is really a PATH style variable since 2.4.4.2 to allow actual
# interoperability with KDM. Note that <sysconfdir>/dm/Sessions is there
# for backwards compatibility reasons with 2.4.4.x
SessionDesktopDir=/etc/X11/sessions/:/etc/dm/Sessions/:/usr/share/xsessions/:/opt/gnome/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/:/opt/gnome/share/xsessions/
# This is the default .desktop session. One of the ones in SessionDesktopDir
#DefaultSession=gnome.desktop
# Better leave this blank and HOME will be used. You can use syntax ~/ below
# to indicate home directory of the user. You can also set this to something
# like /tmp if you don't want the authorizations to be in home directories.
# This is useful if you have NFS mounted home directories. Note that if this
# is the home directory the UserAuthFBDir will still be used in case the home
# directory is NFS, see security/NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS to override this behaviour.
UserAuthDir=
# Fallback if home directory not writable
UserAuthFBDir=/tmp
UserAuthFile=.Xauthority
# The X server to use if we can't figure out what else to run.
StandardXServer=/usr/X11R6/bin/X
# The maximum number of flexible X servers to run.
#FlexibleXServers=5
# And after how many minutes should we reap the flexible server if there is
# no activity and no one logged on. Set to 0 to turn off the reaping.
# Does not affect Xnest flexiservers.
#FlexiReapDelayMinutes=5
# the X nest command
Xnest=/usr/X11R6/bin/Xnest -audit 0 -name Xnest
# Automatic VT allocation. Right now only works on Linux. This way
# we force X to use specific vts. turn VTAllocation to false if this
# is causing problems.
FirstVT=7
VTAllocation=true
# Should double login be treated with a warning (and possibility to change
# vts on linux and freebsd systems for console logins)
#DoubleLoginWarning=true
# Should a second login always resume the current session and
# switch vts on linux and freebsd systems for console logins
#AlwaysLoginCurrentSession=true
# If true then the last login information is printed to the user before
# being prompted for password. While this gives away some info on what
# users are on a system, it on the other hand should give the user an
# idea of when they logged in and if it doesn't seem kosher to them,
# they can just abort the login and contact the sysadmin (avoids running
# malicious startup scripts)
#DisplayLastLogin=false
# Program used to play sounds. Should not require any 'daemon' or anything
# like that as it will be run when no one is logged in yet.
#SoundProgram=/usr/bin/play
# These are the languages that the console cannot handle because of font
# issues. Here we mean the text console, not X. This is only used
# when there are errors to report and we cannot start X.
# This is the default:
#ConsoleCannotHandle=am,ar,az,bn,el,fa,gu,hi,ja,ko,ml,mr,pa,ta,zh
# This determines whether gdm will honor requests DYNAMIC requests from
# the gdmdynamic command.
#DynamicXServers=false
# This determines whether gdm will send notifications to the console
#ConsoleNotify=true
[security]
# If any distributions ship with this one off, they should be shot
# this is only local, so it's only for say kiosk use, when you
# want to minimize possibility of breakin
AllowRoot=false
# If you want to be paranoid, turn this one off
AllowRemoteRoot=false
# This will allow remote timed login
AllowRemoteAutoLogin=false
# 0 is the most restrictive, 1 allows group write permissions, 2 allows all
# write permissions
RelaxPermissions=0
# Check if directories are owned by logon user. Set to false, if you have, for
# example, home directories owned by some other user.
CheckDirOwner=true
# Number of seconds to wait after a bad login
#RetryDelay=1
# Maximum size of a file we wish to read. This makes it hard for a user to DoS
# us by using a large file.
#UserMaxFile=65536
# If true this will basically append -nolisten tcp to every X command line,
# a good default to have (why is this a "negative" setting? because if
# it is false, you could still not allow it by setting command line of
# any particular server). It's probably better to ship with this on
# since most users will not need this and it's more of a security risk
# then anything else.
# Note: Anytime we find a -query or -indirect on the command line we do
# not add a "-nolisten tcp", as then the query just wouldn't work, so
# this setting only affects truly local sessions.
DisallowTCP=true
# By default never place cookies if we "detect" NFS. We detect NFS
# by detecting "root-squashing". It seems bad practice to place
# cookies on things that go over the network by default and thus we
# don't do it by default. Sometimes you can however use safe remote
# filesystems where this is OK and you may want to have the cookie in your
# home directory.
#NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=true
# XDMCP is the protocol that allows remote login. If you want to log into
# gdm remotely (I'd never turn this on on open network, use ssh for such
# remote usage that). You can then run X with -query <thishost> to log in,
# or -indirect <thishost> to run a chooser. Look for the 'Terminal' server
# type at the bottom of this config file.
[xdmcp]
# Distributions: Ship with this off. It is never a safe thing to leave
# out on the net. Setting up /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to only
# allow local access is another alternative but not the safest.
# Firewalling port 177 is the safest if you wish to have xdmcp on.
# Read the manual for more notes on the security of XDMCP.
Enable=false
# Honour indirect queries, we run a chooser for these, and then redirect
# the user to the chosen host. Otherwise we just log the user in locally.
#HonorIndirect=true
# Maximum pending requests
#MaxPending=4
#MaxPendingIndirect=4
# Maximum open XDMCP sessions at any point in time
#MaxSessions=16
# Maximum wait times
#MaxWait=15
#MaxWaitIndirect=15
# How many times can a person log in from a single host. Usually better to
# keep low to fend off DoS attacks by running many logins from a single
# host. This is now set at 2 since if the server crashes then gdm doesn't
# know for some time and wouldn't allow another session.
#DisplaysPerHost=2
# The number of seconds after which a non-responsive session is logged off.
# Better keep this low.
#PingIntervalSeconds=15
# The port. 177 is the standard port so better keep it that way
#Port=177
# Willing script, none is shipped and by default we'll send
# hostname system id. But if you supply something here, the
# output of this script will be sent as status of this host so that
# the chooser can display it. You could for example send load,
# or mail details for some user, or some such.
Willing=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/Xwilling
[gui]
# The specific gtkrc file we use. It should be the full path to the gtkrc
# that we need. Unless you need a specific gtkrc that doesn't correspond to
# a specific theme, then just use the GtkTheme key
#GtkRC=/opt/gnome/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
# The GTK+ theme to use for the gui
#GtkTheme=Default
# If to allow changing the GTK+ (widget) theme from the greeter. Currently
# this only affects the standard greeter as the graphical greeter does
# not yet have this ability
#AllowGtkThemeChange=true
# Comma separated list of themes to allow. These must be the names of the
# themes installed in the standard locations for gtk themes. You can
# also specify 'all' to allow all installed themes. These should be just
# the basenames of the themes such as 'Thinice' or 'LowContrast'.
#GtkThemesToAllow=all
# Maximum size of an icon, larger icons are scaled down
#MaxIconWidth=128
#MaxIconHeight=128
[greeter]
# Greeter has a nice title bar that the user can move
#TitleBar=true
# Configuration is available from the system menu of the greeter
#ConfigAvailable=true
# Face browser is enabled. This only works currently for the
# standard greeter as it is not yet enabled in the graphical greeter.
Browser=false
# The default picture in the browser
#DefaultFace=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/nobody.png
# User ID's less than the MinimalUID value will not be included in the
# face browser or in the gdmselection list for Automatic/Timed login.
# They will not be displayed regardless of the settings for
# Include and Exclude.
MinimalUID=1000
# Users listed in Include will be included in the face browser and in
# the gdmsetup selection list for Automatic/Timed login. Users
# should be separated by commas.
#Include=
# Users listed in Exclude are excluded from the face browser and from
# the gdmsetup selection list for Automatic/Timed login. Excluded
# users will still be able to log in, but will have to type their
# username. Users should be separated by commas.
Exclude=bin,daemon,mail,nobody
# By default, an empty include list means display no users. By setting
# IncludeAll to true, the password file will be scanned and all users
# will be displayed except users excluded via the Exclude setting and
# user ID's less than MinimalUID. Scanning the password file can be
# slow on systems with large numbers of users and this feature should
# not be used in such environments. The setting of IncludeAll does
# nothing if Include is set to a non-empty value.
#IncludeAll=false
# If user or user.png exists in this dir it will be used as his picture
#GlobalFaceDir=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/faces/
# File which contains the locale we show to the user. Likely you want to use
# the one shipped with gdm and edit it. It is not a standard locale.alias file,
# although gdm will be able to read a standard locale.alias file as well.
#LocaleFile=/opt/gnome/etc/gdm/locale.alias
# Logo shown in the standard greeter
#Logo=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/gdm-foot-logo.png
# The standard greeter should shake if a user entered the wrong username or
# password. Kind of cool looking
#Quiver=true
# The Actions menu (formerly system menu) is shown in the greeter, this is the
# menu that contains reboot, shutdown, suspend, config and chooser. None of
# these is available if this is off. They can be turned off individually
# however
SystemMenu=true
# Should the chooser button be shown. If this is shown, GDM can drop into
# chooser mode which will run the xdmcp chooser locally and allow the user
# to connect to some remote host. Local XDMCP does not need to be enabled
# however
#ChooserButton=true
# Welcome is for all console logins and RemoteWelcome is for remote logins
# (through XDMCP).
# DefaultWelcome and DefaultRemoteWelcome set the string for Welcome
# to "Welcome" and for DefaultWelcome to "Welcome to %n", and properly
# translate the message to the appropriate language. Note that %n gets
# translated to the hostname of the machine. These default values can
# be overridden by setting DefaultWelcome and/or DefaultRemoteWelcome to
# false, and setting the Welcome and DefaultWelcome values as desired.
# Just make sure the strings are in utf-8 Note to distributors, if you
# wish to have a different Welcome string and wish to have this
# translated you can have entries such as "Welcome[cs]=Vitejte na %n".
DefaultWelcome=true
DefaultRemoteWelcome=true
#Welcome=Welcome
#RemoteWelcome=Welcome to %n
# Don't allow user to move the standard greeter window. Only makes sense
# if TitleBar is on
#LockPosition=false
# Set a position rather then just centering the window. If you enter
# negative values for the position it is taken as an offset from the
# right or bottom edge.
#SetPosition=false
#PositionX=0
#PositionY=0
# Xinerama screen we use to display the greeter on. Not for true
# multihead, currently only works for Xinerama.
#XineramaScreen=0
# Background settings for the standard greeter:
# Type can be 0=None, 1=Image, 2=Color
#BackgroundType=2
#BackgroundImage=
#BackgroundScaleToFit=true
#BackgroundColor=#76848F
# XDMCP session should only get a color, this is the sanest setting since
# you don't want to take up too much bandwidth
#BackgroundRemoteOnlyColor=true
# Program to run to draw the background in the standard greeter. Perhaps
# something like an xscreensaver hack or some such.
#BackgroundProgram=
# if this is true then the background program is run always, otherwise
# it is only run when the BackgroundType is 0 (None)
#RunBackgroundProgramAlways=false
# Show the Failsafe sessions. These are much MUCH nicer (focus for xterm for
# example) and more failsafe then those supplied by scripts so distros should
# use this rather then just running an xterm from a script.
#ShowGnomeFailsafeSession=true
#ShowXtermFailsafeSession=true
# Normally there is a session type called 'Last' that is shown which refers to
# the last session the user used. If off, we will be in 'switchdesk' mode where
# the session saving stuff is disabled in GDM
#ShowLastSession=true
# Always use 24 hour clock no matter what the locale.
#Use24Clock=false
# Use circles in the password field. Looks kind of cool actually,
# but only works with certain fonts.
#UseCirclesInEntry=false
# Do not show any visible feedback in the password field. This is standard
# for instance in console, xdm and ssh.
#UseInvisibleInEntry=false
# These two keys are for the new greeter. Circles is the standard
# shipped theme. If you want gdm to select a random theme from a list
# then provide a list that is delimited by /: to the GraphicalThemes key and
# set GraphicalThemeRand to true. Otherwise use GraphicalTheme and specify
# just one theme.
#GraphicalTheme=circles
#GraphicalThemes=circles/:happygnome
GraphicalThemeDir=/opt/gnome/share/gdm/themes/
GraphicalThemeRand=false
# If InfoMsgFile points to a file, the greeter will display the contents of the
# file in a modal dialog box before the user is allowed to log in.
#InfoMsgFile=
# If InfoMsgFile is present then InfoMsgFont can be used to specify the font
# to be used when displaying the contents of the file.
#InfoMsgFont=Sans 24
# If SoundOnLogin is true, then the greeter will beep when login is ready
# for user input. If SoundOnLogin is a file and the greeter finds the
# 'play' executable (see daemon/SoundProgram) it will play that file
# instead of just beeping
#SoundOnLogin=true
#SoundOnLoginFile=
# If SoundOnLoginSuccess, then the greeter will play a sound (as above)
# when a user successfully logs in
#SoundOnLoginSuccess=false
#SoundOnLoginSuccessFile=
# If SoundOnLoginFailure, then the greeter will play a sound (as above)
# when a user fails to log in
#SoundOnLoginFailure=false
#SoundOnLoginFailureFile=
# The chooser is what's displayed when a user wants an indirect XDMCP
# session, or selects Run XDMCP chooser from the system menu
[chooser]
# Default image for hosts
#DefaultHostImg=/opt/gnome/share/pixmaps/nohost.png
# Directory with host images, they are named by the hosts: host or host.png
HostImageDir=/opt/gnome/share/hosts/
# Time we scan for hosts (well only the time we tell the user we are
# scanning actually, we continue to listen even after this has
# expired)
#ScanTime=4
# A comma separated lists of hosts to automatically add (if they answer to
# a query of course). You can use this to reach hosts that broadcast cannot
# reach.
Hosts=
# Broadcast a query to get all hosts on the current network that answer
Broadcast=true
# Set it to true if you want to send a multicast query to hosts.
Multicast=false
# It is an IPv6 multicast address.It is hardcoded here and will be replaced when
# officially registered xdmcp multicast address of TBD will be available
#Multicast_Addr=ff02::1
# Allow adding random hosts to the list by typing in their names
#AllowAdd=true
[debug]
# This will enable debugging into the syslog, usually not neccessary
# and it creates a LOT of spew of random stuff to the syslog. However it
# can be useful in determining when something is going very wrong.
Enable=false
[servers]
# These are the standard servers. You can add as many you want here
# and they will always be started. Each line must start with a unique
# number and that will be the display number of that server. Usually just
# the 0 server is used.
0=Standard
#1=Standard
# Note the VTAllocation and FirstVT keys on linux and freebsd.
# Don't add any vt<number> arguments if VTAllocation is on, and set FirstVT to
# be the first vt available that your gettys don't grab (gettys are usually
# dumb and grab even a vt that has already been taken). Using 7 will work
# pretty much for all linux distributions. VTAllocation is not currently
# implemented on anything but linux and freebsd. Feel free to send patches.
# X servers will just not get any extra arguments then.
# If you want to run an X terminal you could add an X server such as this
#0=Terminal -query serverhostname
# or for a chooser (optionally serverhostname could be localhost)
#0=Terminal -indirect serverhostname
# If you wish to run the XDMCP chooser on the local display use the following
# line
#0=Chooser
## Note:
# is your X server not listening to TCP requests? Perhaps you should look
# at the security/DisallowTCP setting!
# Definition of the standard X server.
[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0
flexible=true
# To use this server type you should add -query host or -indirect host
# to the command line
[server-Terminal]
name=Terminal server
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command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0 -terminate
# Make this not appear in the flexible servers (we need extra params
# anyway, and terminate would be bad for xdmcp choosing). You can
# make a terminal server flexible, but not with an indirect query.
# If you need flexible indirect query server, then you must get rid
# of the -terminate and the only way to kill the flexible server will
# then be by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
flexible=false
# Not local, we do not handle the logins for this X server
handled=false
# To use this server type you should add -query host or -indirect host
# to the command line
[server-Chooser]
name=Chooser server
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0
# Make this not appear in the flexible servers for now, but if you
# wish to allow a chooser server then make this true. This is the
# only way to make a flexible chooser server that behaves nicely.
flexible=false
# Run the chooser instead of the greeter. When the user chooses a
# machine they will get this same server but run with
# "-terminate -query hostname"
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Access oracle server installed on linux from client on winxp

Hi
I am new to this forum and oracle on linux too. I am trying to install Oracle 10gr2 on fedora 8. If I installed oracle on fedora 8, can I log onto oracle from windows xp so that i can practice sql, if so how can I do that
please help me.

Hi,
Please download the Oracle Database 10g Client for Windows at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/htdocs/10201winsoft.html
Then please install the client and configure it, after that, you can use sqlplus to connect the DB on Linux. See http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b15662/toc.htm for details.
Also, you can use ssh or telnet to connect to the linux from windows, and run the sqlplus command on the linux server directly.
Bing.

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Hey all,
I'm trying to install arch using only my hd, is this possible?
So far I made a small partition, put the install media on there using dd and tried to boot it using grub(v2).
I however, don't know anything about grub, and I didn't get it to boot, so how do I go about this?
Thanks a lot for your time!

In answer to the thread title (without regards to your post) Two techniques come to mind. Remove the drive, put it on another system, install Arch to the drive on that other system, and move the drive back. The other solution is to use a PXE environment (assuming your system can boot from a network), and set up a DHCP server and a TFTP server on another computer and boot as a thin client.
With regards to your post, how did you get grub and the iso image on to the drive without a usb or cd? Does grub come up at all? Or does the BIOS carp about not having a boot media? Is it a BIOS machine or EFI?

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Hi guys,
I finally want to install arch. However, I can only establish a internet connection via openVPN (the university provides internet service at my dorm). So how do i do this?
How I would do it:
Stop dhcpcd service (necessary?)
Identify Ethernet controller and activate it (both steps according to this.
Install openVPN from USB stick if necessary (I read somewhere that openVPN is available on the install media?)
Establish openVPN connection according to uni's instructions
But what do I do once I installed the base system and chrooted? Which one of the following is the correct one? Plus I need to install openVPN via pacman -S openvpn, right?
Thanks for your help, I hope I can finally use arch soon!

I just wanted to report back, I performed the above and was able to install Arch remotely via SSH. Thank you for your confirmation, it was what I needed.
--nixIT

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Hello,
I'm trying to install Arch with PXE, and for this I'm using two VM in VirtualBox. I've followed all steps in the Wiki, also I tried to use a script ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … pxe_server ).
Following the main PXE wiki article, when I mount the archlinux-boot image, I can't find isolinux subfolder in order to copy contents into /var/tftpd/ folder. Article seems to be out of date.
¿Any idea? I've dhcpd server running and I executed mkpxelinux -c=/etc/mkpxelinux.conf command, but I don't know what I need to do right now.
Thanks for all.

Hi
nbd in 2010.05 images is old
nbd in your system is new
archiso-pxe-server script try to keep compatible with old (untested) and new nbd.
Try this on ramfs prompt:
nbd-client the-server-ip -N archiso /dev/nbd0 -presist
mount -r -t udf /dev/nbd0 /bootmnt
logout
Download a recent update archiso-pxe-server-20101012 (just now)
If does not work, try to build your archiso up-to-date using my branch that have the fix[#1]. See here how http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Use … lean_build
[#1] http://github.com/djgera/archiso/commit … 9bc219ee30
Good Luck.
Last edited by djgera (2010-10-12 04:50:33)

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