Re: R: [newbie-it] Problemi con LILO
Casa wrote: Il 15:21, gioved 15 marzo 2001, scrivesti: cut Il dd, invece e` un comando che permette di fare tante cose, tra cui una copia fisica, bit per bit, di (un pezzo di) un'unita` fisica. Per caso dd riesce anche a copiare certi floppy disk (per winzozz) protetti in modo da non poter essere copiati ? Credo che abbiano un errore da qualche parte o roba del genere. P.S. Sono quelli con dentro le licenze dei programmi ;-) Mai provato a farlo e non ho nessuna intenzione di provarci. Io l'ho usato solo per recuperare dati su nastro scritti con formati di vecchi unix commerciali, copiare il settore di boot della partizione Linux su un file da usare col loader di Nt, copiare su un file una partizione formattata per errore in modo da poterci lavorare con un editor esadecimale e recuperare dei dati, preparare il floppy di avvio di una distro, ... E` uno strumento molto duttile e potente pero` e` noto da tempo: era presente nelle primissime versioni di Unix degli anni ottanta. Quindi se una ditta volesse proteggere i propri floppy da copiatura sicuramente prenderebbe precauzioni contro un uso (banale) di dd, come le prende contro analoghi strumenti dos. ciao, Andrea P.S, maggiori informazioni sul sito www.gdf.it ;-)
Re: [newbie-it] SB AWE32
freefred wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2001 18:04, Marc (aka: Verbal) wrote: Non riesco a riprodurre suoni con la sb in oggetto. durante l'installazione di M7.2 me l'ha vista e installata, ma non c' verso di configurarla! Che fare? hai provato con il DrakConf? In che senso non c'e' verso di configurarla? Prova a disattivare il riconoscimento automatico del PnP nel BIOS, tanto non serve a nulla, e poi a lanciare sndconfig da console. ehm..25 righe di signature mi sembrano un po' troppe. Oltretutto, mi sembra che avesse anche postato in html. Mi sembra di ricordare un post illeggibile con un subject simile ... ciao, Andrea
R: [newbie-it] SB AWE32
Io ho la setssa scheda sonora, e lo configurata lanciando sndconfig..senza dare nessun problema. Ciao Beppe - Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] SB AWE32 freefred wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2001 18:04, Marc (aka: Verbal) wrote: Non riesco a riprodurre suoni con la sb in oggetto. durante l'installazione di M7.2 me l'ha vista e installata, ma non c' verso di configurarla! Che fare? hai provato con il DrakConf? In che senso non c'e' verso di configurarla? Prova a disattivare il riconoscimento automatico del PnP nel BIOS, tanto non serve a nulla, e poi a lanciare sndconfig da console. ehm..25 righe di signature mi sembrano un po' troppe. Oltretutto, mi sembra che avesse anche postato in html. Mi sembra di ricordare un post illeggibile con un subject simile ... ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] aurora
- Original Message - From: Enrico Mischi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] aurora La risposta è semplice... non hai installato il pacchetto auorora, oppure aurora stesso, se installato (controlla con rpmdrake), non è abilitato, ma sinceramente io non saprei dove andare ad attivarlo. Ciao Enrico con rmpdrake trovo aurora tra i pacchetti installati...credo che sia un problema di grafica, come mi ha suggerito Andrea... proverò a smanettarci ed eventualmente tornerò a tormentarvi con i miei problemi grazie mille :-) salutatemi a bilgheiz osva
Re: [newbie-it] aurora
La grafica di Aurora e` basata sull'utilizzo del framebuffer. ...mi piacerebbe capire cosa il framebuffer... Poi, mi sembra (non ricordo) che durante l'installazione devi dirgli di usarlo. in effetti nella prima installazione (pc di casa) non mi pare che me l'avesse chiesto...e neanche in ufficio.. Quindi direi che le cause possono essere due: - la grafica non e` configurata bene quindi non riesci ad usare il framebuffer; - non gli hai detto che vuoi Aurora. e qui viene il bello...in effetti ho avuto problemi di configurazione di x, nel senso che non mi riconosceva il monitor e non era presente sulla lista propostami. si tratta di un digital PCXBV-UD...tra l'altro non ne trovo traccia su internet (strano)...diciamo che ho provato prima con un generico svga propostomi da mdrk, poi ho avuto grossi problemi (non partiva startx) ho reinstallato suggerendogli il monitor Digital PCXBV-KA (simile al mio) ma di tanto in tanto non si avvia comunque la modalit grafica o meglio, ci prova ma mi esce una videata a striscie verticali colorate e rimane bloccato. e anche quando si avvia ho qualche problema (tipo flash bianco neri ogni volta che digito una lettera ad esempio per scrivere un'e-mail...) siccome sono sintomi che non mi piacciono ho provato con xf86config...ma rimango spiazzato di fronte a domande tipo "memoria della tua scheda grafica"...se potesse servire a qualcosa vi dico che ho un fujitsu siemens scenic eT, con scheda video integrata (da uindos-sistema mi dice: Intel(r) 82815 Graphics Controller...ma la memoria della scheda dove sta?) ...ho l'impressione di girovagare un poco alla cieca e di non sapere dove trovare le informazioni che mdrk mi chiede sul mio sistema...peccato...mi ero esaltato quando sono riuscito a configurare perfino la scheda di rete, connettermi ad internet tramite LAN, e vedere tutti gli altri pc in rete...tutto da solo! grazie per l'attenzione e se dovessero essere necessarie altre informazioni...fatemelo sapere salutatemi a bilgheiz osva
[newbie-it] [LM 7.2] Xfree86 4.0.2, DRI e Matrox G200
Ieri sera ho provato ad abilitare il DRI per la mia G200 (su Xfree 4.0.2 e kernel 2.2.17). Ho modificato l'XF86Config-4 come da istruzioni trovate dopo varie ricerche sulla rete e ho riavviato il pc. Ora all'avvio di XFree, il monitor mi flasha e poi resta nero per un certo periodo, dopodiche' parte normalmnte. Su alt-f1 mi trovo l'output dell'avvio del server X e in fondo appare un messaggio dove dice che non puo' inizializzare il DRI. Faccendo lsmod, vedo che ha caricato i moduli mge e agpgart (che prima non erano caricati) e ho controllato anche la presenza di /dev/proc/0. Qualcuno e' in grado di darmi qualche dritta a proposito del mio problema? Ciao Alessandro Amadori Real Life and IRC nick: Sgama Mu* and PBIRC nick: Luxor IHGGER #78
Re[2]: [newbie-it] aurora
Hola osvaldo, En fecha Friday, March 16, 2001, 1:25:57 PM, escribi: o con rmpdrake trovo aurora tra i pacchetti installati...credo che sia un o problema di grafica, come mi ha suggerito Andrea... o prover a smanettarci ed eventualmente torner a tormentarvi con i miei o problemi o grazie mille :-) o salutatemi a bilgheiz o osva Ho gi provato a rispondere ma pare che la mail non sia arrivata in lista. Ora sono al lavoro e non ho modo ti postare un esempio pratico, in ogni caso devi andare in menu.lst (/boot/grub) e aggiungere alla fine della riga riguardante linux la stringa "vga=788" (senza virgolette"). E' importante che tu non vada capo, il tutto deve restare sulla stessa linea. Questo se usi grub, con lilo non ci dovrebbero comunque essere grosse differenze. Ciao Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] [LM 7.2] SBlive e midi: silenzio totale
Ho spulciato la rete su notizie sul midi della SBLive e ho scoperto che gli attuali driver forniniti dalla Creative (che poi sono quelli caricati automaticamente dalla Mandrake 7.2) non supportano il midi. Allora ho scoperto dell'esistenza di driver audio ALSA. Ho trovato un messaggio con un modules.conf che utilizza questi driver per la SBLive e cosi' ho inserito nel mio questa configurazione. Inizialmente tutto sembra funzionare bene. I moduli emu10k1 e soundcore sono caricati (come prima) e l'audio wave funziona bene come prima. Rispetto a prima noto che facendo #cat /dev/sequencer non mi viene piu' il messaggio di periferica non presente. A questo punto, speranzoso, faccio il cat di un sile midi su /dev/sequencer. Do un pochino di attesa, appare il maledetto messaggio di periferica non presente. Ricontrollo i moduli caricati e in piu' di prima trovo tutti quelli dell'emulazione OSS (come dovrebbe essere) ma di ascoltare il midi non c'e' verso. I driver ALSA forniti con LM7.2 dovrebbero essere i 0.5.* mentre sul sito ho visto che ci sono i 0.9.*beta. Qualcuno riesce ad ascoltare i midi con la SBLive? Ciao Alessandro Amadori Real Life and IRC nick: Sgama Mu* and PBIRC nick: Luxor IHGGER #78
[newbie-it] Negozi specializzati
Ciao, scusatemi per questa email che un po' OT rispetto all'argomento della mailing list. Qualcuno saprebbe indicarmi (se esistono) negozi di Roma specializzati in software, hardware, libri ed altro per Linux? Grazie in anticipo a chi vorr rispondermi... Daniele
Re: [newbie-it] [LM 7.2] SBlive e midi: silenzio totale
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:51:53 +0100 "Alessandro \"Sgama\" Amadori" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I driver ALSA forniti con LM7.2 dovrebbero essere i 0.5.* mentre sul sito ho visto che ci sono i 0.9.*beta. Qualcuno riesce ad ascoltare i midi con la SBLive? Ti giro una mail che ho mandato su un' altra ml per lo stesso problema. Se hai ancora installati gli Alsa metti queste righe nel modules.conf alias midi snd-synth-emu10k1 below snd-seq-oss snd-synth-emu10k1 post-install snd-synth-emu10k1 /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/share/sfbank/8mbgmsfx.sf2; alsactl restore pre-remove snd-synth-emu10k1 alsactl store Servono per usare direttamente il synth della Live e per caricare il banco da 8mb dei soundfonts, che rende un po' piu' "realistico" il suono. Controlla di avere installato il pacchetto awesfx (che contiene sfxload) se no lo trovi sul 1 cd di mdk. Se non ti funziona con es. kmidi (che non supporta direttamente Alsa) prova con Melys, che trovi sul sito di Alsa (tra le applications). Ciao P.S.: Ora trovi tutto sotto /proc/asound, es. cat /proc/asound/sndstat -- Sebastiano Cordiano
Re: [newbie-it] [LM 7.2] Xfree86 4.0.2, DRI e Matrox G200
At 13.42 16/03/2001 +0100, you wrote: Ieri sera ho provato ad abilitare il DRI per la mia G200 (su Xfree 4.0.2 e kernel 2.2.17). Ho modificato l'XF86Config-4 come da istruzioni trovate dopo varie ricerche sulla rete e ho riavviato il pc. Ora all'avvio di XFree, il monitor mi flasha e poi resta nero per un certo periodo, dopodiche' parte normalmnte. Su alt-f1 mi trovo l'output dell'avvio del server X e in fondo appare un messaggio dove dice che non puo' inizializzare il DRI. Faccendo lsmod, vedo che ha caricato i moduli mge e agpgart (che prima non erano caricati) e ho controllato anche la presenza di /dev/proc/0. Qualcuno e' in grado di darmi qualche dritta a proposito del mio problema? Mi rispondo da solo. Ho studiamo meglio le istruzioni del DRI e ho scoperto che per funzionare ci vuole un kernel col supporto agpgart, presente nei kernel 2..4.* Vabbe', se prima ero indeciso, ora sono costretto ad aggiornare il kernel. Speriamo che vada tutto bene Ciao Alessandro Amadori Real Life and IRC nick: Sgama Mu* and PBIRC nick: Luxor IHGGER #78
Re: [newbie-it] [LM 7.2] SBlive e midi: silenzio totale
At 20.51 16/03/2001 +0100, you wrote: Se hai ancora installati gli Alsa metti queste righe nel modules.conf alias midi snd-synth-emu10k1 below snd-seq-oss snd-synth-emu10k1 post-install snd-synth-emu10k1 /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/share/sfbank/8mbgmsfx.sf2; alsactl restore pre-remove snd-synth-emu10k1 alsactl store Si, attualmente ho gli ALSA forniti dal LM7.2. Queste sono le righe del mio modules.conf riguardanti l'audio. alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss Eccomi di nuovo qui, reduce da alcuni esperimenti. Il pacchetto awesfx e' installato, ma al posto di /usr/bin/sfxload ho /bin/sfxload e della direcotry /usr/share/sfbank neanche l'ombra, tantomento del file 8mbgmsfx.sf2. Allora ho provato ad aggiungere solo le prime due righe di quelle da te proposte. Ora al'avvio mi carica una marea di moduli e finalmente mi appare la directory /proc/asound, ma di sentire i midi non c'e' verso e se interrogo le varie voci di /proc/asound (sndstat, cards, device, etc..) sembra che io non abbia schede installate, ne' synth, ne' seq, ne' midi. Ho provato anche a togliere dal modules.conf le righe "alias sound-service-0-*", ma il risultato non cambia. Sinceramente non so piu' cosa pensare. Ciao Alessandro Amadori Real Life and IRC nick: Sgama Mu* and PBIRC nick: Luxor IHGGER #78
Re: R: [newbie-it] Problemi con LILO
Il 10:50, venerd 16 marzo 2001, scrivesti: cut.. Per caso dd riesce anche a copiare certi floppy disk (per winzozz) protetti in modo da non poter essere copiati ? Credo che abbiano un errore da qualche parte o roba del genere. P.S. Sono quelli con dentro le licenze dei programmi ;-) Mai provato a farlo e non ho nessuna intenzione di provarci. Io l'ho usato solo per recuperare dati su nastro scritti con formati di vecchi unix commerciali, copiare il settore di boot della partizione Linux su un file da usare col loader di Nt, copiare su un file una partizione formattata per errore in modo da poterci lavorare con un editor esadecimale e recuperare dei dati, preparare il floppy di avvio di una distro, ... E` uno strumento molto duttile e potente pero` e` noto da tempo: era presente nelle primissime versioni di Unix degli anni ottanta. Quindi se una ditta volesse proteggere i propri floppy da copiatura sicuramente prenderebbe precauzioni contro un uso (banale) di dd, come le prende contro analoghi strumenti dos. Beh, allora la Siemens non e' al corrente di vecchi programmi dos perfettamente funzionanti per scopiazzare le loro licenze. Non mi viene in mente il nome del programma, ma deve essere una cosa vecchia, almeno 10 anni. Mi sa che i floppy non sono una buona protezione! Grazie, Nicola. -- __ chi va pian va san e va lontan
[newbie-it] Re:netsystem
c'e un modo x far funzionare la scheda in questione sotto linux?
[newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?
I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. It tells me that no sane devices are detected. I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure to get a result? All advice welcome. Graham Watkins
[newbie] Migrate RedHat to Mandrake?
Hi everyone. I would like to migrate to Mandrake from RedHat but I need to keep all the qmail,vmailmanager settings and users. Now I wodner if there is any easy way to do this or do I have to install Mandrake on a new disk and copy the whole mail system to the new disk? /Patrik
[newbie] autologin in 7.1
heyho all does anybody know whether the autologin-package of 7.2 will also work on 7.1 ? --quay
Re: [newbie] autologin in 7.1
Hi, The auto login works for me on 7.1, even though it was designed for 7.2!! Ok? Thomas Adam --- Quaylar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heyho all does anybody know whether the autologin-package of 7.2 will also work on 7.1 ? --quay = Thomas Adam Linux Co-ordinator for The Purbeck School e-mail (school): [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail (yahoo) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Migrate RedHat to Mandrake?
Hi Patrik, Rightwhere to begin??? If you plan to upgrade to Mandrake from Rehat, and you want to keep configuration settings, the best thing to do, is to back up you /etc folder, since this is the folder which stores those configuration files. You may also want to copy "/root" and "/home". The folders "/usr" and all the programs are created when you install Mandrake anyway. Does that help? Let me know if I can be of anymore help, Kind Regards, Thomas Adam re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Patrik Nylund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I would like to migrate to Mandrake from RedHat but I need to keep all the qmail,vmailmanager settings and users. Now I wodner if there is any easy way to do this or do I have to install Mandrake on a new disk and copy the whole mail system to the new disk? /Patrik = Thomas Adam Linux Co-ordinator for The Purbeck School e-mail (school): [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail (yahoo) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Cups upgrade to 1.1.6
hi, I upgraded cups to 1.1.6 yesterday and got the jobs printing again, I dont have printpro installed, and no error were reported in software update interface. I'm using KDE 2.0.1 yet. I curious stuff, in my system when the printer stops working properly, I have to remove any printer configuration from cups database and configure again, it starts working, otherwise I just got the message "lp is not ready" from a test printer task! I hope it helps! Jose On Friday 16 March 2001 04:15, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone run into the problem of upgrading cups to 1.1.6 and getting the error message that it conflicts with printpro. I thought printpro was part of cups or viseversa... Don't know what to do cause I can't print with cups and KDE2.1 ( it wiped out cups printing) and can't upgrade to see if that will solve the problem. Any help? TIA
Re: [newbie] Just a newbie question
at site
www.google.com
type
"c/c++"+"sample"+"examples", or add others words,
"tutorial"+"libraries"+"openGL"+"HOWTO"+"alegro" etc, any thing related. you
will be moved to plents of links you will appreciate.
the path to learn c/c++ is not straight foward, some oscillation occur but
you ever see new things. Try some introductory books yet, some examples and
look for data structures in, it's cool.
Sorry my questions, whats a schizo?
jose
On Saturday 17 March 2001 00:12, you wrote:
*
I've been using Linux exclusively for the past two months and it's
absolutely given me a new direction.
My Exploration seems to have ended when I saw that little foot at the
lower left hand cornerand I saw not a START but a finish.
$ has become my symbol of control and no longer is anything (greater
than) me.
*
Before this newbie starts ranting again, I gotta get this out.
I want to study C/C++. I'm just starting to fool around with gcc.
I tried using Visual C++ for a start but I think it's too
self-centered... if a piece of software can have a personality on its own.
main()
{
char answer;
printf("Would you use Visual C++? Enter Y\/N:\n");
scanf("%c",answer);
if (answer=y)
printf("Why?\n");
else
printf("What would you rather use?\n");
)
So what "would" you rather use?
And what stuff "would" you read?
Which URLs "would" you browse?
Newsgroups? Mailing Lists?
Web Communities?
Or "would" you rather dive head first into Java [w/c is easier as I've
heard]?
Any answer would be greatly appreciated..
AND
Yes I'm a schizo...
__
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Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?
Dan LaBine wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just downloaded pmfirewall. I have some pretty bad questions as I am a complete newbie. I want to get this up and running so that I can feel safe about getting on the net. My question is, after I unzip it where should I point the file when I untar it as root? ie tar -xvf "---" When I run the install shell it's saying that it isn't finding the directory or something. And, does anyone have any general suggestions about out of box security for a complete newbie? I know absolutely nothing about IP chains. Thanks, Chuck -- Get the Latest News at CNN Interactive: http://CNN.com Chuck; You may not want to keep Pmfirewall (flamers please input arrogant denegrating reply/opinion here). For what it's worth, and IMHO, Sorry Dan...I don't have enough time this morning to flame this message properly as it deserves, but suffice it to say that PMfirewall is ONLY a configuration device to setup the RULES to utilize IPchains. Once the basics are done you MAY have to edit the RULES in order to make sure that the ports that are left open are closed properly. There is SOME human intervention necessary. It's Not a windows program, ya know? ;-) Mark I've been using PMfirewall, and found that it leaves some ports open! You're better off with IPchains. IPchains should already be installed in your system. Please send back more info about your network ie; how many PC's what IP's you're using, etc. Depending on your set up, you'l need up to 3 lines of text to activate it and I'm sure someone will respond with instructions on how to automate the startup procedure for it. -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User #190712
RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT
I am using tcp/ip. I'm in the process of setting up a proxy server, so I needed something routable... Moose -Original Message- From: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:50 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT Moose, That's really good. What about Fat partitions, is it the same deal? Sorry, your prompting also reminds me of the stuff needed in /etc/fstab a mount point. Assuming you've only just recently installed Linux didn't create your mount point (RH 6.0 lm7.2 didn't except in my most recent install), you need to enter something like this for ntfs: /dev/hda1 /winnt ntfs rw,user,exec,umask=0 0 0 There are those who've studies the fstab entries mount point theory more thoroughly than I, so you may want to wait for flames to this;-). With W98, it looks rather like this: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 Again, I've not studied that stuff heavily -- I just go with whatever works. Previous to this recent install, I'd had to make my own mount points usually opted for /win as it's easy. Mandrake chose to create a mount point for my W98 in the /mnt directory made the name the full "windows" (s'pose I'll change that eventually to either /mnt/win or just /win create the mount point, but it works). Then creating a mount point is just: # mkdir /winnt or # mkdir /mnt/winnt or just # mkdir /win Doesn't really matter but /win is less typing. Here's my scenario: I have two machines. One is running Linux MDK 7.2 and the other is Windows 98se. I want the Linux box to have access to the Windows drive. There are options, here. Either you can install smbd on the Linux box the Windows smb client on the Windows box (or, if you have access to Reflection software, you may want to use that on the Windows box -- I've never used either, though, as I've no need to access Linux from Windows), or you could install (as I suspect you've been thinking of doing) Linux (even minimally) on the Windows box. Personally, I'd dual-boot the other box, since you've the space, then you could telnet from one to the other (if it's running Linux at the time) then access the Windows partition. If it's in Windows at the time, you'd need one of the two apps mentioned above, as I don't think event the SE version of W98 comes with an ftp daemon. I have the machines set up in Point to Point topology through a hub. Not real complex. Are you using to tcp/ip or netbui? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] Disk usage
Renaud, You can get the information you're looking for by using this neat little command. du -h dir(s) to be listed --max-depth=1 Example: du -h / --max-depth=1 give it a try...you'll love it! Mark Renaud OLGIATI wrote: Hi all, I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-directory of a given directory, the total amount of disk-space used up by that sub-directory and all its sub-sub-directories. Is there a way to do this with du , Or any other way ? I dont need/want the breakdown with all the sub-sub-directories listed, only the total for each first-level sub-dir. TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
RE: [newbie] USB ethernet vs NIC
Well I haven't been able to get my Dlink USB 10/100 ethernet card to work in Linux. It works fine in Windows though. There is a driver called Pegasus (I think) that is supposed to work but I haven't been successful and haven't been able to get any help on it here. Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Blaine Owens Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] USB ethernet vs NIC Hello, I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on PC #1 and am very pleased. I now plan to install Linux on PC #2 but before I do I would like to have it "network ready" as I have recently switched to a cable modem ISP. PC #2 does not have an ethernet card but it does have 2 USB ports. I understand that there are USB ethernet adapters but I don't know all the pros and cons. Also, I imagine that it could be a chore to get Linux to recognize the USB ethernet connection. Would I be better off to just install a ethernet NIC? Any pros and cons and advice using a USB adapter would be appreciated. Thanks.
[newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller
Hi all people, Re Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows Settings Control Panel System Device Manger Storage Contoller Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7 b. Input/Output Range 03F6 - 03F6 c. Interrupt Request 14 d. Input/Output Range 0170 - 0177 e. Input/Output Range 0376 - 0376 f. Interrupt Request 15 g. Input/Output Range F000 - F000F Is it to make following changes : linux ide2 = 01F0-01F7, 03F8-03F8ide3 = 0170-0177, 0378-0378 Whether the formula ide2=a, (b+2) ide3=c (d+2) are still applicable ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen
[newbie] Installation of Mandrake7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc
Hi Charles, Could you please throw me some light re installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows Settings Control Panel System Device Manger Storage Contoller Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7 b. Input/Output Range 03F6 - 03F6 c. Interrupt Request 14 d. Input/Output Range 0170 - 0177 e. Input/Output Range 0376 - 0376 f. Interrupt Request 15 g. Input/Output Range F000 - F000F Is it to make following changes : linux ide2 = 01F0-01F7, 03F8-03F8ide3 = 0170-0177, 0378-0378 Whether the formula ide2=a, (b+2) ide3=c (d+2) are still applicable ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen
Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness
On Thursday 15 March 2001 12:42 pm, Adam Baxter wrote: Yet that's the wierd thing, I shouldn't have SCSI on my computer..the commands came with the origional kernel on Madrake 7.2. How would I turn the SCSI emulation off? Usually the line append=" hdd=ide-scsi" is in there to accomodate a CD-RW or some CDroms that need scsi emulation. If you have neither, try removing that line from lilo.conf. You may or may not still need an initrd.img. It's not entirely clear to me, but you may need ram disk suppport if you leave scsi emulation in the kernel, or use the fb device for Aurora (ie, vga=788). I believe the safe thing to do would be to go ahead and make an initrd.img. I think that's why your kernel can't load into ram (ie, black screen) -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness Your lilo conf shows you are using scsi emulation, but the line is wrong. Should be:append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Also, you must have scsi enabled in the kernel, and 'mkinitrd' a ram disk image as per the instructions here: http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade3.html
Re: [newbie] Slowly getting there!
varun The Linux4Win can be installed on your Windows FAT partition by inserting the CD once ME has booted to the desktop. ME will execute the autorun file and give you the option to install Lin4Win on a certain part of your FAT partion. Using a boot disk and the CD will excute an actual LINUX install that requires its own partions on the hard drive. JD - Original Message - From: "Varun Kumar Verma" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Slowly getting there! Hello friends, Hi! I am facing a problem with my Linux Mandrake 7.2 installation.I have got a laptop with 20gb harddisk and windows ME installed on it.I wanted to install linux using the Linx4win.My comp doesnt boot from the CD so I made a boot floppy.When I start installing LINUX on the compI get three options:1.to erase the entire disk(which i dont want to do)2.use the free space for the installation(i want to do this) 3.expert mode(i am not an expert).. I want to go do the second option.when I do that it shows that there is some error in partiting(i have a single C drive on which I have windows ME) Can u help me on this! bye varun From: James carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Slowly getting there! Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:41:49 -0800 Alright, thanks for the help guys, I am now able to get into the desktop. I used XFdrake, and was able to access the desktop. The only problem is, I can only use it in 256 colors! Whats up with that? All the other settings don't work! I really don't want to be stuck with only 256. Is there anything I missed here? I have a ATI Mach64GX video card. All the settings are available, and I can choose them, but all I can get to work is 256. I know my card is capable of doing more than that, I have it set to 24bit here in (yuck) Window$ and it works flawlessly. Soon, I will stop bugging you guys with questions :) So am I outta luck? Or is there something I can do? Oh ya, also when I boot Mandrake, I get a bug error right away, and all my icons disappear!!! Hmmm Thanks, James -- James carlson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/15/2001 _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Telnet
Telnet don't have this utility. For this you need have a ftp connection. Julio Gutierrez escribi: does anyone know how I can copy files from a Win2k telnet server to a linux box? or is this possible? if anyone knows pls let me know Thanks in advance Julio -- dison Andrs Rivera Norea Ingeniero de Sistemas Departamento de Informtica Universidad de San Buenaventura Medelln - Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usb-med.edu.co/~neos
Re: [newbie] Spare partition
howdy -- if i understand you correct, you want to take an existing fat32 and convert it to ext2, yes? i have done this in the following way -- run diskdrake and find out exactly which partition i'm dealing with, such as hda4 then i used diskdrake to change the partition type (fat32 to ext2) then i formated the drive. exit diskdrake open /etc/fstab in my favorite editor remove the old line for hda4 write a new line for hda4 exit the editor reboot go to /mnt and delete the folder where hda4 use to mount at. that worked for me i'm sure there are other ways. i don't think MDK has any way to "autodetect" these sort of changes. if you don't change the fstab, i image the system will still try to mount your newly created ext2 partion as a fat32 partition. but maybe i'm wrong about that. hope this helps you some. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Wayne Alexander" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:51:31 PM 3/15/01 I have a 3 gig partition I would like to give to linux to use (currently vfat) and was wondering as it is mounted already as WINDOWS, if I was to change it to ext2 would I have to messa round with my fstab or would MDK7.2 pick it up and make the appropriate changes for me? Would this cause any problems with my system? Thanks, Wayne _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?
Graham, I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. It tells me that no sane devices are detected. I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure to get a result? Though it didn't work for me -- I have the same scanner, but it won't work in either lm7.2 ~or~ Windows. I'd wasted the whole of a weekend trying to get it working. Anyway, there is an update for the Plustek backend. Trouble is, it requires numerous updates -- at least one of which is an unstable cooker update. May or may not work for you. In the end, I was left with a still unworking scanner various minor problems I couldn't figure out. Doubt it's related, but eventually, my video wouldn't accept any settings above 16-bit colour a very bad refresh rate. So, I'd reinstalled got rid of the whole mess. Let me know if you figure it out, though. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Re: [newbie] NVIDIA screen brightness
Often brightness problems occur because you havent specified the correct monitor in setup. Try the similar ones until you get a satisfactory result. -- Microsoft is not the answer, its the question. And the answer is no. www.badran.co.uk
Re: [newbie] autologin in 7.1
At 02:50 16.03.2001 -0800, you wrote: Hi, The auto login works for me on 7.1, even though it was designed for 7.2!! Ok? Thomas Adam - hmm..shouldnt autologin install a /etc/sysconfig/autologin file ?..i installed 1.0.0-3, it had only 8 kB (is this possible ?), but i dont have a /etc/sysconfig/autologin file. u have an idea what went wrong ? --quay
Re: [newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?
i have also messed with SANE a bit. no luck. at the moment i'm just letting it slide. my scanner isn't fully supported by linux yet anyhow, so i still have to use win to make full colour scans. hopefully soon SANE will be more idiot proof and i'll be able to figure it out.=) Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meph Istopheles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:27:15 AM 3/16/01 Graham, I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. It tells me that no sane devices are detected. I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure to get a result? Though it didn't work for me -- I have the same scanner, but it won't work in either lm7.2 ~or~ Windows. I'd wasted the whole of a weekend trying to get it working. Anyway, there is an update for the Plustek backend. Trouble is, it requires numerous updates -- at least one of which is an unstable cooker update. May or may not work for you. In the end, I was left with a still unworking scanner various minor problems I couldn't figure out. Doubt it's related, but eventually, my video wouldn't accept any settings above 16-bit colour a very bad refresh rate. So, I'd reinstalled got rid of the whole mess. Let me know if you figure it out, though. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
[newbie] RE: Installation of Mandrake7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 7:05 AM To: Charles A Edwards Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installation of Mandrake7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc Hi Charles, Could you please throw me some light re installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows Settings Control Panel System Device Manger Storage Contoller Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7 b. Input/Output Range 03F6 - 03F6 c. Interrupt Request 14 d. Input/Output Range 0170 - 0177 e. Input/Output Range 0376 - 0376 f. Interrupt Request 15 g. Input/Output Range F000 - F000F Is it to make following changes : linux ide2 = 01F0-01F7, 03F8-03F8ide3 = 0170-0177, 0378-0378 Whether the formula ide2=a, (b+2) ide3=c (d+2) are still applicable ? Stephen This line of your message has me confused: I'Will WO2 onboard controller When you get the I/O from Windows it leaves out part of the # My fault for not mentioning it before. To be sure you are using the proper values, boot the Mandrake installation and at the splash screen press F1. At the boot prompt enter: lspci -vv | less Use the space bar to tab down to find the listing for your Promise controller. You will find 5 sets of heximal # stings giving the I/O address for the card. Write down the first 4, (a,b,c, and d) you also need only the the first listing in each set not both. Reboot your system. When the installation begins enter the I/O adresses for the controller using the formula: linux ide2=a, b+2 ise3=c, d+2 The spaces and comas must be used linux(space)ide2=a,(space)b+2(space)ide3=c,(space)d+2 Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
[newbie] VICE / X64 (to Paul Rodríguez)
Hi Paul, sorry for this late reply.. Can't find your email-addy, so i send this to this list for all the world to see :) Joystick setup in the vice is very easy. For the unix/linux versions, just hold the _right_ mouse-button (the left pops up a load-menu), choose joystick setup from the popup-menu, and choose your favourite option. Numpad is great if you don't have a joystick, you use the numpad keys for an 8-directional joystick, with left ctrl for fire. I still use the c64, but mainly the real thing, emulators only when absolutely neccesarry :) .. It a great machine really :) .. Easy to program as well, and fun to try to get it to do things that's impossible on an 1mhz machine with 64k of memory, and see it work :) . The c64 scene is still alive! Btw, check out sta.c64.org, there you can find instructions for building (or ordering cheap) a X1541-series cable, which allows you to transfer your c64 disks to and from the pc! :) (make sure to get the version that works under linux). Gerry
Re: [newbie] Can't access CD drives - even as root
** Reply to message from Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:07:53 + In the process of following my own instructions and testing how to do this right, I created the same problems with my Zip drive that you have with your CD drives. Still working on it - Andy
[newbie] KDE 2.1 install
Greetings! I am downloading the Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 rpms from ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/i586 The rpms are dated 2001-03-05. I would like to kow if there are any special instructions on how to install them. This is my plan: 1. telinit 3 and su - root 2. rpm -Uvh qt2*.rpm 3. rpm -Uvh lib rpms 4. rpm -Uvh the rest of the rpms 5. rebuilddb 6. rpm --rebuilddb 7. update-menus Should this work? Pleae give me any corrections or point me to KDE 2.1 on Mandrake install instructions. I use Mandrake 7.2 at work and do not want to mess up my computer. Thanks! -- Salvatore "Eric" Indiogine Computer Specialist - Power Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-2431
[newbie] Setting up VNC
Can anyone explain a) Why the following messages result when starting up VNC: xrdb: No such file or directory xrdb: can't open file '/root/.Xresources' /root/.vnc/xstartup: xterm: command not found b) How to start up KDE instead of the default twm. Using 'startkde' I get a whole raft of error messages among which is a complaint about KDE already running. This is a fresh server installation of Mandrake 7.2; the only thing I've done so far is set up Samba. TIA -- GT
Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1 install
Greetings! Do I have to uninstall KDE 2.0.1 first? Do I have to use one --force --nodeps? I modified my list: 0. mv .kde .kde_old 1. telinit 3 and su - root 2. rpm -Uvh qt2*.rpm 3. rpm -Uvh lib rpms 4. rpm -Uvh the rest of the rpms 5. rebuilddb 6. rpm --rebuilddb 7. update-menus 8. telinit 5 Thanks! On Friday 16 March 2001 12:34, Salvatore "Eric" Indiogine wrote: Greetings! I am downloading the Mandrake 7.2 KDE 2.1 rpms from ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.1/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/i586 The rpms are dated 2001-03-05. I would like to kow if there are any special instructions on how to install them. This is my plan: 1. telinit 3 and su - root 2. rpm -Uvh qt2*.rpm 3. rpm -Uvh lib rpms 4. rpm -Uvh the rest of the rpms 5. rebuilddb 6. rpm --rebuilddb 7. update-menus Should this work? Pleae give me any corrections or point me to KDE 2.1 on Mandrake install instructions. I use Mandrake 7.2 at work and do not want to mess up my computer. Thanks! -- Salvatore "Eric" Indiogine Computer Specialist - Power Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-2431
[newbie] Question about QT
I have QT 1.44 and QT 2.2.1 or whatever it is. How do I direct programs (RPM or ./configure) to the QT2? If I try to install an rpm that requires qt2 I get unsatisfied dependancies, if I try to build from source I get the can't create small programs qt2 not found. I did an rpm -q for qt2 and it is installed and so is qt1.44. Any help?
Re: [newbie]To varun, Slowly getting there!
I know your feeling. I bought Linux4Windows despite many warnig against it because Linux would run faster on its own partition, which is true, or they are very anit-Windows which is the impression I got from them. On my laptop the CD boots from the CD drive. I could never get pass the dowloading the KDesktop. It would take half an hour to load HALF of the desktop. I tried a full installation through Mandrake 7.2 suite. It couldn't work with my CyberBlade graphics card. I tried Linux4Windows on my newly built system and it worked this time. I believe it was harddrive room problem. I would tell Mandrake about 2.5 GB for installation which I didn't quite have on my laptop and on the desktop system with two harddrives the first primary is 4GB drive with nearly 2GB for Windows and programs. The second drive 30GB which is intended for raw video,music, and still phots for my videomedia projects. When installed on the first Kdesktop would not boot up or crash during installation. Second time it put some of the files and folder on the first drive and the other on the second. I tried another installation this time I put Linux on the second with 7B remaining and Linux booted up and worked just fine. Athough, justbefore that I tried doing the graphics card and monitor test during Xconfiguration but Linux kept turning off my Futura monitor. I walked away to answe a phone call when I thought I had click on configuration again but instead I finished installation. When I returned Linux booted up into the Kdesktop and I was there. I could do everything I first configured my HP printer which I had seen was a major problem with CUPS. On the first time I got it worked and printing beautifully. Current problem now is my modem is a winmodem and although many are helping to get it to work using alternative many others say I should buy a external "hardware" modem for Linux to use. Keep at it you can do it and Linux4Windows despite what hardcore Linux users will tell you runs quick and nicely through Windows FAT partition. I will get another harddrive and install a complete Linux on it soon. Hope this helps good luck.Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
[newbie] Vmware Linux
Dear All, I now have vmware running Windows 95 on my LM 7.2 which is great. Thanks to the help of some of those here. Now, I would like to share files between the two. Does anyone know how to do this? I am quite a newbie in this area. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Question about QT
I am not completely sure but it might be related to the environmental variable KDEDIR. Eric Indiogine On Friday 16 March 2001 13:20, Jon Doe wrote: I have QT 1.44 and QT 2.2.1 or whatever it is. How do I direct programs (RPM or ./configure) to the QT2? If I try to install an rpm that requires qt2 I get unsatisfied dependancies, if I try to build from source I get the can't create small programs qt2 not found. I did an rpm -q for qt2 and it is installed and so is qt1.44. Any help? -- Salvatore "Eric" Indiogine Computer Specialist - Power Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-2431
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RE: [newbie] Vmware Linux
Marcia When you hava vmware running on any Linux platform, is as if you had another machine. If you want to share data from Linux to your vmware or viceversa you need to use SAMBA. It emulates the protocol used to share data in a Win network. If you are also new to samba, you can go to www.oreilly.com, there you can download a book called Using Samba. It is in PDF format and explains how to connect a Linux machine with a Windows machine. Good luck. Esteban - Original Message - From: marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 5:06 AM Subject: [newbie] Vmware Linux Dear All, I now have vmware running Windows 95 on my LM 7.2 which is great. Thanks to the help of some of those here. Now, I would like to share files between the two. Does anyone know how to do this? I am quite a newbie in this area. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Marcia
RE: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100harddisc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller
I dunno, but it should be: ide2=0x01f0,0x0400 ide3=0x0170,0x0380 Beware, this is from memory, not from fact as I don;t have an IWill board. Regards, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 harddisc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller Hi all people, Re Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows Settings Control Panel System Device Manger Storage Contoller Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range01F0 - 01F7 b. Input/Output Range03F6 - 03F6 c. Interrupt Request 14 d. Input/Output Range0170 - 0177 e. Input/Output Range0376 - 0376 f. Interrupt Request 15 g. Input/Output RangeF000 - F000F Is it to make following changes : linux ide2 = 01F0-01F7, 03F8-03F8ide3 = 0170-0177, 0378-0378 Whether the formula ide2=a, (b+2) ide3=c (d+2) are still applicable ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen
RE: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 harddisc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller
Hello folks, I have an WO2 mother board, with a Quantum 30 Gb ATA 66 (hda) with two windows partition and a second harddrive Seagate ATA 100 (hdb) with two mandrake system installed, MDK 7.2 (working fine, including Epson USB scanner, CDrwriter, DVD -with xine I could see splendid dvd-movies- cable modem, epson stylus 760 printer, avermedia tv) and beta2 MDK 8.0 (with few problems now). I haven't had any problem but perhaps the ATA 100 is not optimized. MDK 7.2 and 8.0 beta1 and now beta2 installed both drivers without problems. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Ton Truong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Viernes, Marzo 16, 2001 10:14 pm Asunto: RE: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 harddisc- I'Will WO2 onboard controller I dunno, but it should be: ide2=0x01f0,0x0400 ide3=0x0170,0x0380 Beware, this is from memory, not from fact as I don;t have an IWill board. Regards, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Liu Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 harddisc-I'Will WO2 onboard controller Hi all people, Re Installation of Mandrake 7.2 on ATA 100 hard disc I'Will WO2 onboard controller From MSWindows Settings Control Panel System Device Manger Storage Contoller Resources, following data were found : a. Input/Output Range 01F0 - 01F7 b. Input/Output Range 03F6 - 03F6 c. Interrupt Request 14 d. Input/Output Range 0170 - 0177 e. Input/Output Range 0376 - 0376 f. Interrupt Request 15 g. Input/Output Range F000 - F000F Is it to make following changes : linux ide2 = 01F0-01F7, 03F8-03F8ide3 = 0170-0177, 0378-0378 Whether the formula ide2=a, (b+2) ide3=c (d+2) are still applicable ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen
Re: [newbie] pmfirewall?
Hello All, Thanks for all of the information. In response to your question Dan, I'm using the internet on one PC. I have a cable modem. Running static, not DHCP. Just got it working. Does this answer your questions? Let me know. Thanks for your help! Chuck -- Get the Latest News at CNN Interactive: http://CNN.com
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste Get System Commander 2000. It's a super boot loader and partitioning tool. Roman
Re: [newbie] Triple boot?
michael wrote: I was quadribooting for awhile (NT,98SE,RH,MDK7.2). Make sure windows is on first. -m- Jon Doe wrote: I currently run Win98SE and Linux Mandrake 7.2 and things work just fine, but I would like to also run Red Hat. Is triple boot a bad idea? If not what is the best way to install all three? -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste Windows 95 or Windows 98 first, then WIndows NT4 and any other OS. Roman
