Here’s the message that I get every time:

Last login: Wed Jul  8 16:35:28 2009 from 192.168.2.3
Linux localhost 2.6.20-15-server #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:41:34 UTC 2007 i686
 
The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
 
Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
root@localhost:~#

Changing this message requires editing two different files. The first three sections can be modified by editing the following file:

  nano  /etc/motd

This file contains the linux build number as well as the Ubuntu warranty message. I don’t find this particularly useful, so I removed all of it and replaced it with my own message.

To disable the last login message (which I don’t recommend doing), you will need to edit the following file in sudo mode:

  nano  /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Find this line in the file and change the yes to no as shown:

    PrintLastLog no

Now when you login, you’ll get a blank prompt, although I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it because it’s useful to see the last login to the system for security reasons. This is my prompt now:

Last login: Wed Jul  8 17:05:12 2009 from 192.168.2.3
OMG!! You killed kenny! You BASTARD!
 
             _..-""""-.._
           .'            '.
          /     _...._     \
         /  ,=";_.''._;"=,  \
        ;  /  /  `\/`  \  \  ;
        |  |  |  '/\'  |  |  |
        |  |  \..'  '../  |  |
         ;  \  \      / .'  ;
          \  '._-.__.-_.'  /
          /'.   ``|\``   .'\
         /   `'-../.).-'`   \
        |_                  _|
       (  \                /  )
        '-/                \-'
          |________________|
          (________.________)
 
root@localhost:~#

To create the custom CD…..

Mount the install…

mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom

Copy the CD.

mkdir -p /opt/cd-image
cp -r /cdrom/* /opt/cd-image
cp –r /cdrom/.disk /opt/cd-image

Extract the initrd.gz from the cd image

mkdir extract
cd extract
 
zcat /opt/cd-image/install/initrd.gz | cpio -i

Delete the modules in sym53c8xx_2 directory

rm –rf ./extract/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2

Repack the modified files.

Cd back to to your extract directory

find . | cpio -o --format='newc' |   gzip -9 > ~/initrd.gz.new

Put the new file into our CD replacing the old one.

cp ~/initrd.gz.new /opt/cd-image/install/initrd.gz

Now create the iso image.

 
IMAGE=custom.iso
BUILD=/opt/cd-image/
 
mkisofs -r -V "Custom Ubuntu Install CD" \
            -cache-inodes \
            -J -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
            -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
            -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
            -o $IMAGE $BUILD

Burn the image to CD and you should be able to install to your Compaq Smart Array controller.

Installation

1. Boot the install CD. At the splash screen hit [esc] to get the boot: prompt and enter: expert as the only option.

2. Do all the steps up to & including “Install the Base System”

3. After installing the Base System, hit Alt-F2 and enter the console.

4. type:

echo “cpqarray” >>/target/etc/mkinitramfs/modules
*it can be
echo “cpqarray” >>/target/misc/mkinitramfs/modules
or
echo “cpqarray” >>/target/etc/modules
(You must find it out it can be diffrent by versions)
- check to see which one your system is trying to use.

5. Exit the console. Press Alt+F1 to return to the install.

6. Continue the installation steps as normal.

Networking and Upgrade version after installation
You can check this page for network stuff
you must check this page for upgrading

Don’t forget
Your old version’s /etc/apt/sources.list is wrong you must change it like this

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main/debian-installer
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

P.S. there is a bug about update-manager if you get an error until updating version you must
change this file /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release

herefore (on Feisty), edit /var/lib/update-manager/meta-relase and just replace all occurences of:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/

with

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/

1. Plan the layout of the filesystem with the new drive
2. Partition the new hard drive
3. Format the new partitions
4. Test the new space
5. Copy data from old to new partition (optional)
6. Edit /etc/fstab
7. Reboot
8. Remove old data (optional)

Here is the details about each one.

1. Plan the new filesystem. Where would you like to use the new space? Do

 df </pre
 
to print a summary of free/used space on each of the existing mounted partitions. Do
 
<pre lang="bash">du

on selected directories to find their size.

For example, I would consider using new hard drive space in one of the following mount points:

/usr/local
/home
/home/share/downloads
/usr/local/mp3s
/usr/local/dos_data

Here is Details.

/usr/local is suposed to survive any upgrade of Linux. It is nice to have it on a separate partition because I can even reformat other partitions without affecting my local contents stored in /usr/local. I surely want it of the type “ext2″ or perhaps “reiserfs”.

/home contains user data. Surely, it is the data that deserves the most care. It is obviously supposed to survive any upgrade of Linux. Wow, obviously I want it on a separate partition. The type is normally “ext2″ or “raiserfs”.

/usr/local/mp3s is a non-standard Linux directory. I may keep my MP3 (music) files there. Those tend to be large.

/usr/local/dos_data. Another non-standard directory. If I dual boot, I would consider making an extra partion of the type “DOS FAT32″ or similar so as to share files between MS Windows and Linux transparently (both ways). I would configure all the Windows-based programs to use this “drive” as the default location for all user-generated files. I could even have “mp3s”, “cds” and other such directories in this location. The serious drawback of this approach–MS Windows may insist on messing up with this partion on re-install.

2. Partition the new hard drive. For example, if my new harddrive is the slave on the second IDE interface (perhaps the “fourth” IDE drive), I could use:

cfdisk /dev/hdd

or the more old-fashioned (and standard) tool:

fdisk /dev/hdd

If your drive is not “hdd” adjust the above command as needed.

hda — first ide master (whole disk)
hdb — first ide slave
hdc — second ide master
hdd — second ide slave
sda — first scsi (whole disk)
sdb — second scsi (whole disk)
…
sdp — sixteenth scsi (whole disk)

For other disks, consult /usr/src/Linux/Documentation/devices.txt.

Most of the time, Linux partitions to be of the type ext2 (“Linux”).

Partitioning can be tricky–if you never have done it, read man fdisk and man cfdisk. It is very easy to delete a partition with all your data. Make sure you know which disk you are working with!

fdisk or cfdisk does not make any changes to the hard drive until I write the new partition layout. So if I make a bad mistake, I can always quit without writing. I write the layout to the drive only when I am completely done.

3. Format each partition. For example, to format the first partition, while checking for bad blocks (-c), I would do:

mkfs -c -t ext2 /dev/hdd1

4. Test the new partitions around. Mount the new partitions manually (the mount directory must exist and be empty). Copy a bunch of files to each partition. View/edit a couple of random files. Delete them all.

5. Copy data. Optional–only if you would like to move data from an old partition to a new partition. Go to the single-user mode (init 1). Mount the new partition manually. Copy the data from the old partition to the new partition. Careful with the old data, you probably don’t want to lose it if you made a mistake, so I wouldn’t delete it yet–I rename the top level directory appropriately. E.g.,

cp -R /usr/local/ /mnt/hdd1/
mv /usr/local/ /usr/local.old.backup_of_2005-04-21

6. Edit the file /etc/fstab. Modify it to reflect your new filesystem layout. Perhaps, insert the mountpoint for the new partition(s) or modify any old mountpoints as needed. For example, if moving /usr/local to its own partition, I would need to add to add a line like this:

/dev/hdd1 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2

7. Reboot and test. The alternative to reboot is to unmount old and mount new mount points. For example:

umount /usr/local
mount -a

but hard reboot may be a more rigorous test of the new layout.

8. Remove old data. After a few days, when I have the confidence everything is really working fine

The following HOWTO will show you exactly how to install the following packages on a Debian Etch or Ubuntu 7.06 system:

• FFmpeg
• FFmpeg-PHP
• Mplayer + Mencoder
• flv2tool
• LAME MP3 Encoder
• AMR (for 3gp file conversions)
• Libogg
• Libvorbis

Do some prep-work

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install libjpeg-progs libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev libsdl1.2-dev php5-dev build-essential unzip

Download all the files needed

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2</span>
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.97.tar.gz
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ffmpeg-php/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrnb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2
wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrwb-7.0.0.3.tar.bz2
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0beta3.tar.gz

Extract all the files

tar zxvf lame-3.97.tar.gz
tar zxvf libogg-1.1.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf libvorbis-1.2.0.tar.gz
tar zxvf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
tar jxvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.tbz2
bzip2 -cd amrnb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
bzip2 -cd amrwb-7.0.0.3.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
tar zxvf libtheora-1.0beta3.tar.gz

We need a codec directory

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/

Install Ruby on Rails, subversion & ncurses

apt-get install subversion ruby libcurses-ruby

Run some SVN queries

svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update

Copy Codecs for mplayer

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
mv /usr/local/src/essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/

We also need to secure the tmp directory

mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp

Install lame

cd /usr/local/src/lame-3.97
./configure
make && make install

Install libogg

cd /usr/local/src/libogg-1.1.3
./configure && make && make install

Install libvorbis

cd /usr/local/src/libvorbis-1.2.0
./configure && make && make install

Install flvtool2

cd /usr/local/src/flvtool2-1.0.6/
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install

Install mplayer & mencoder

cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
./configure --enable-jpeg
make && make install

Install AMR (for 3gp conversion)

cd /usr/local/src/amrnb-7.0.0.2
./configure
make && make install

cd /usr/local/src/amrwb-7.0.0.3
./configure
make && make install

Install libtheora (for ogg video encoding)

cd /usr/local/src/libtheora-1.0beta3
./configure
make && make install

Install ffmpeg

Debian Etch and Ubuntu 8.04 users please use the following configure command:

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-nonfree --enable-libtheora

Ubuntu 7.06 users please use the following configure command:

./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libogg --enable-libvorbis --disable-mmx --enable-shared --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libtheora

Now run these commands:

make
make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavdevice.so.52 /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.52 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.so.52 /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavutil.so.49 /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libavformat.so.51 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.51
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libamrnb.so.3 /usr/lib/libamrnb.so.3
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libamrwb.so.3 /usr/lib/libamrwb.so.3

Install ffmpeg-php

cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/
phpize
./configure
make
make install

You now need to add the new ffmpeg-php module to the php.ini file

vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
extension=ffmpeg.so (add this line to the end of the file)

Restart & done

/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install debconf
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Or you could add something like the following lines to /etc/environment

LANG=”en_US.UTF-8″
LANGUAGE=”en_US:en”

If you want different locales for different users, you can add that to their
.bashrc files

Here’s some links that touch on what you’re looking for:

http://gallery.menalto.com/wiki/Debian_locale_HowTo

http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/debian-utf8/howto.html