So let’s get started with a fresh install of 8.04.2 with all the updates.

1. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
2. sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. sudo addgroup –system qtss
   sudo adduser –system –no-create-home –ingroup qtss qtss
4. cd /usr/local/src/
5. Download the latest version at http://github.com/lstoll/dss/tree/master
6. tar -xvf lstoll-dss-984a1365251f36ebf3f60f0d0175fa895a30b9a9.tar
7. cd lstoll-dss-984a1365251f36ebf3f60f0d0175fa895a30b9a9/
8. ./Buildit install
9. cd DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Linux
10. ./Install
11. If you see Setup Complete! message, you are good to go. Logon to http://servername:1220/ using your browser. Username and password is the ones you entered at step 10.

Ok, now you have Darwin Streaming Server installed on your Ubuntu Hardy box.

Here’s a sample init file for DSS:
[sourcecode language="plain"]
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 35 92 12
# description: Quicktime Streaming Media Server
#
# Slight tweak of file create by Larry Underhill 05/20/02
#
# init script to start up the quicktime (Darwin) streaming server
# tested on Redhat 7.2, Fedora Core 4 and CentOS-4.3

# source function library
#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

case "$1" in
start)
if test -r /var/lock/dssd
then
echo "Lockfile /var/lock/dssd exists. Server not started."
failure
else
echo "Starting Darwin Streaming Server: "
/usr/local/sbin/DarwinStreamingServer && touch /var/lock/dssd
echo "Starting DSS Admin Console: "
/usr/local/sbin/streamingadminserver.pl
echo "DSS and DSS Admin Console started…"
fi
;;

stop)
echo "Stopping Darwin Streaming Server: "
[ -f /var/lock/dssd ] || exit 0
echo "stopping…"
killall DarwinStreamingServer && killall streamingadminserver.pl
#ps ax | awk ‘{print $1" " $5}’ | awk ‘/DarwinStreamingServer/ {print $1}’ | xargs -r kill -9 && success || failure
#echo "Stopping DSS Admin Console: "
#ps ax | awk ‘/streamingadminserver.pl/ {print $1}’ | xargs -r kill -9  && success || failure
rm -f /var/lock/dssd
echo
;;

restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;

*)
echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop|restart]"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
[/sourcecode]
Save this file in /etc/init.d/dss

Make it executable chmod +x /etc/init.d/dss and make it auto start when booting:

update-rc.d dss defaults
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/dss …
/etc/rc0.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc1.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc6.d/K20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc2.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc3.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc4.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss
/etc/rc5.d/S20dss -> ../init.d/dss

Now that we have already installed DSS on Ubuntu Hardy box, next thing is how to broadcast mp3 and video through it. Well, that’s a next post coming up. Enjoy!

DSS Admin Console

1. cd /tmp
2. svn co https://www.kismetwireless.net/code/svn/trunk kismet-devel
3. cd kismet-devel
4. ./configure
5. sudo make install
6. Edit  kismet config file like: sudo vim /opt/local/etc/kismet.conf  and change the following two lines:
   a.) suiduser=Your_Username_For_Mac
   b.) source=darwin,en1,airport_extreme
7. Run kismet and enjoy! sudo kismet

First thing I noticed was the packaging, the box huge! Here, take a look!

Dell Vostro 1510 Laptop

Four Dell Vostro Laptop boxes

There are two versions of Vostro 1510, one with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T5670 (1.80GHz) and the other with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8100 (2.10GHz) at Dell Malaysia website. But guess what, the Vostro at my hands has Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5870 @ 2.00Ghz.

Dell Vostro 1510 Vista

Compared to my 13″ MacBook, this machine looks like a soldier type.

Dell Vostro 1510 Notebook Computer

Generally Vostro models are designed for business. That’s why I guess it’s designed minimalistic. It’s not fancy, it is a solid box that does the job.

Little things I didn’t like:

1. Phone & Mic jacks in front, I’d expect them to be on the left side. When you work in the office, you tend to listen music using ear phones all the time. The wire mess in front will definitely bug you a lot.
2. RJ45 Network jack, external VGA input at the back of the laptop. Whenever you need to connect LAN cable and/or external VGA, you will need to turn around the laptop or close the lid. Again, I’d put them either on the left or right side of the laptop.
3. Ugly Targus backpack. How many people really enjoy those bags that comes in a package?

Little things I loved:

1. CPU cooling
2. 4 USB ports & FireWire
3. apple like cdrom drive
4. 15.4″ WXGA
5. 8-in-1 media memory card reader
6. Two stereo 2 watt internal speakers with HD Audio 2.0 software standard

Here’s some shots of the laptop

MacBook 13" by Dell Vostro 1510

Dell Vostro 1510 Keyboard

Dell Vostro 1510 & MacBook 13"

How much? The cheaper model is RM2379 and the higher specs model is RM3839.

Do you have Dell Vostro? What’s your say? Share it with us.

IdeaPad S10 Netbook

One of my bosses at my place bought a netbook – Lenovo IdeaPad S10. I couldn’t stop myself from getting my hands on that machine.

First thing I noticed is that the keyboard is really small and not so perfectly designed. You can always blame to the fact that it’s a netbook. Yes, but why not take a look at HP Mini? They sure did a hell of a job with their keyboard.

IdeaPad S10 Netbook Keyboard

Also left/right click buttons aren’t that nice too. When clicking right/left click you have a bit of trouble, not ergonomic(?).

IdeaPad S10 Netbook Charger

Honestly, if you make that small netbook I think you should have spent some time designing a more compact and more user friendly charger. Learn from Apple. I love their charger. The fact that I can remove the thicker part of the charger and make the charger damn small.

However I liked their netbook cover. It’s well designed and cute.

IdeaPad S10 Netbook Cover

If you take a look at the specs:

Intel Atom N270 CPU, 2GB RAM, 160GB SATA HDD, Intel 95o, 10/100 Mbps LAN, b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, 1.3Megapixel webcam, SD/MMC/MS/MS pro card reader, 2xUSB port.

It’s 1.25kg, 3 cell battery. For a good netbook I’d say 6 cell battery is must. May be you sacrifice and have a little bit more weight.

Overall, bad keyboard, low battery life, long/big charger, nice cover, good CPU.
Lenovo Ideapad S10 10.2-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home) White

These two types of hosting are quite similar in many ways but there are still a few differences that could be worth mentioning. Firstly though, one mistake that many seem to do is focusing too much on the operating system rather than picking web host because of its services and features. We have already mentioned that Linux hosting comes very cheap (so does Windows hosting) and all the features that almost always are included makes the hosting plan even more impressive. Take a look at the Linux hosting plans offered by the largest hosting providers on the market – we are sure that you will like what you see.

Ok, Linux hosting and Windows hosting are quite similar in many ways but is it possible to say that one is better than the other? Historically has Linux been regarded as the stronger alternative among webmasters and it still seems as if it is their top alternative. One reason for this could be that Linux hosting has narrowed its ease-of-use gap and functionality.  Windows hosting is of course not a bad alternative and it can boost with full allowance for use of ASP and ASP.Net. You are probably better off with Windows if you feel more comfortable with ASP when creating websites. If you are not particularly fond of ASP we would like to recommend you picking Linux hosting.

If we look into web servers in Linux we have Apache, lighttpd, nginx and many other open source servers. They are 100% open source and free. For big websites you can have complicated setup like clustering and failover.

In Windows hosting we have IIS. Mostly it is used to host .NET (old same ASP). Unlike in Linux, in IIS you are more or less stuck with .NET and there’s not much chance to scale.

Most of the successful websites run free and open source servers and applications. Good examples will be Google, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Yahoo and such.

So if you are buy web hosting consider linux hosting as an alternative. If you don’t have any particular reason for going windows hosting go for linux hosting!

It’s no secret that New Year is not celebrated here like back at home. With all the shining super-mega shopping complexes, all the luxury and high technology New Year eve isn’t as exciting. I guess it’s not because of those things, I guess it’s the new year mood that gets you high and makes it more exciting.

Yeah, few hours left of 2008, 2009 is just ahead. So what was so special in 2008 to me?

• My daughter, my sweet angel. She turned 1 and walking and talking(in her own way). My shining star. I love her so much!
• My son, super-duper cool guy He started talking English only. His first year at pre-school is over. He’s not rooky anymore
• My wife started working as freelance guide. She couldn’t wait to start. Now she’s in Sabah, a part of Malaysia where the locals used to hang skulls of their ancestors. She’s there for a 2 weeks job. Doing pretty good.
• I got to know great and interesting people. Learned a lot.
• Went to couple of barcamps.
• Started driving, bought my first ever car. An old Honda civic which is older then me
• Started off (2-3 months ago)  couple of websites ( http://hotweddingguide.com and http://thebrandology.com ) with my kid sister. Today I got to know they are Google PR2!
• Said good bye to my futsal career (as if!) because of my knee injury. I really have to find some time and get it “fixed” as my better half says.
• Have malaysian server, moving out from US.
• Hands on Macs, iPod touch

I could go on with the list but I think it’s enough. Now, next post will be expectations for the year 2009.

Stay around.

As soon as I got back home and connected iPod to my PC, I started downloading apps one after another. Of course, all free versions. First thing I noticed, I couldn’t get my apple ID to get integrated. I don’t have a credit card or neither do I want to pay for the apps(for now).  So the easiest way would be registering a new account and setting None as payment method.

After a couple of days, I decided to write a short list of my favourite iPod touch apps.

1. Free RSS Reader. It’s a cool software to read your favourite blogs/sites feeds. It can manage to pull the feeds offline so you can read while not connected to WiFi.

   
   

2. Twitterrific. A very cool software, helps you to tweet through you iPod.
   
3. TouchTerm. It’s a terminal to connect to your OpenSSH Servers. If you haven’t jailed your iPod, this is the only way to connect to them to my knowledge.
   
4. Discover. Use your iPod as external disk. Share files.
   

   use your iPod touch as external disk

5. WordPress. If you run your own hosted WordPress blog, here’s a chance to blog through your iPod.
   

   WordPress

6. LiveJournal. For LiveJournal based blogs.
   

   LiveJournal

7. Windows RDP & VNC Client.
   
8. iQuran. Read, listen and translate Holy Quran.
   

   Holy Quran

9. Evernote. Take notes everywhere in text, voice, video.
   

   EverNote

10. Facebook. Do facebook.
    

    Facebook

11. Nimbuzz. Conntect to every single IM service via one single messenger.
    

    Nimbuzz

Active Endpoints is the world’s first all-in-one, standards-based visual orchestration system.

Active is the only SOA-based process orchestration and business process management (BPM) system that allows enterprises and developers to:

1. Automate business processes
2. Collaborate across IT and business boundaries
3. Control the overall state of the business
4. Adapt rapidly and easily to change

Ok, so what’s SOA? What’s BPEL? What is Business Process Management?

SOA – Service Oriented Architecture provides enterprises a design framework to deploy new application in a more faster and economic way. You can say that SOA is a bunch of different business services that can communicate with each other.

Web Services Business Process Execution Language(BPEL) – Web service interactions can be described in two ways. Executable business processes model actual behavior of a participant in a business interaction. Abstract business processes are partially specified processes that are not intended to be executed. An Abstract Process may hide some of the required concrete operational details. Abstract Processes serve a descriptive role, with more than one possible use case, including observable behavior and process template. WS-BPEL is meant to be used to model the behavior of both Executable and Abstract Processes. ( taken from Wikipedia )

Business Process Management, well in short it’s a process where organizations satisfy their clients by studying and enhancing their products or services.

Now Active Endpoints let’s you do all these three things. There’s a free trial, you can download it at http://www.activevos.com/download-trial.php by filling out some forms.

If you opt to purchase the software, they give you two options:

1. You buy the software for Development Environment. ActiveVOS is $5,000 per CPU socket.
2. You buy the software for Deployment Environment. ActiveVOS is $12,000 per CPU socket when the Deployment licenses are ordered with a first-time purchase of Development licenses. Subsequent ActiveVOS deployment purchases are $25,000 per CPU socket.

Support is given at annual fee of 20% of total license fees. If you need training,  a 5-day skills transfer program geared specifically to your project teams needs. Includes 5 days on site for $10,000 plus travel and expenses.

You can follow them via their online blog at http://www.vosibilities.com/

For those who don’t know much about Malaysia, the capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur(KL). And Johor Bahru is like 5 hours drive from KL. Yeah, so for me that’ll be another journey to that side of the country. Lately I’ve traveled to Singapore twice and Singapore is just opposite of JB.

Barcamp Johor Baru 2008

So I went to their website and checked out the sessions. Here’s the ones I liked:

• Azure, Cloud computing from Microsoft.
• MSC Malaysia pre-seed fund.
• Microfinancing(?) from Kiva
• Drupal
• Enterprise PHP

For the final sessions and tracks please check back at their website http://barcamp.org/BarCampJB

So see you at Barcamp JB 2008!

Update:
It’s Johor Bahru. New Johor

Getting through registration and writing my name on a sticker and sticking it on my T-Shirt, I went into the lift where I meet Daniel CerVentus. Upstairs at level 7 early comers were getting their startup camp T-Shirts and already getting social.

I attended Social Entrepreneurship & its Challenges: Aceh – The Case Study – Ellynita Hazlina Lamin, CEO, ACSB, Profiling: Picking The Right Partners – Michael Reyes (Co-founder, Money Tree), The Entrepreneur Myth – Khailee Ng, Shaking Today, Shaping Tomorrow - Michael Tan, Founder of www.yourparttime.com

Ellyn was quite emotional, her startup involved a lot more then just making big bucks. I believe she is contributing to the society and she is really dedicated to it. It was quite different and informative for me.

The next track was Michael’s from Money Tree. He was very experienced in giving speeches and did quite a interesting one. He made a lot of related jokes and interacted with the audience. His track was about how to read people and choose the right partner for your startup. It was fun.

Khailee started off quite in unusual way, he didn’t have any slides to show(I’m sure it is not because he didn’t have time to prepare it was his style) unlike others. He talked, very fast and very interestingly. All the audience was listening carefully to him. He mentioned his life experiences, mistakes and pitfalls of getting to where he is. And he is at TheYouthIntelligence. It was surprise for me to hear him mentioning about Phang, my boss over at Innity.

In between these sessions I met a lot new faces: Carmen and Jules from Creative Paramedics, Boon from Gotka Technologies and Steven from Brilliant Resources.

We had really nice chat with Carmen and Jules, they are sweet ladies that started 4Play magazine for kids and teens.

With Boon we couldn’t chat much since the track was already begining. But I guess will have time tomorrow.

Steven and I did exchange some thoughts of SEO and local web hosting companies and also business in general. His office turns out is not too far away from mine. This is yet another sucessful example of a startup.

Then we had lunch, it was quite long queue for the lunch. I waited a bit then I headed off to Midvalley shopping, I couldn’t miss a chance to eat outside once I’m out of PJ.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend the tracks after lunch.

Right now I’m at my sisters place, will be going off to my place in a while. I’ll be posting Startup Camp, Day 2 post tomorrow.

Life is good –> ayuuma.com

1. First we need to generate some keys:
   ssh-keygen -t dsa
2. Then we copy them over to the remote server:
   scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub user@someserver:/somepath
3. Then we copy the key to the authorized_keys file:
   cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys
4. Then as a security measure we chmod it:
   chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys
5. Logout and try login in again. Hurra!

Important note:

Please set a password for your keychain. It’s a very insecure if you set no password for it. Somebody can eventually get your public key and access your servers without passwords. If you set password it will ask only at first time and keep in the session.

Password-less ssh logins are done via keychain. Here’s a small excerpt from the Gentoo Wiki:

Many of us use the excellent OpenSSH as a secure, encrypted replacement for the venerable telnet and rsh commands. One of OpenSSH’s (and the commercial SSH2’s) intriguing features is its ability to authenticate users using the RSA and DSA authentication protocols, which are based upon a pair of complementary numerical “keys”. And one of the main appeals of RSA and DSA authentication is the promise of being able to establish connections to remote systems without supplying a password. The keychain script makes handling RSA and DSA keys both convenient and secure. It acts as a front-end to ssh-agent, allowing you to easily have one long-running ssh-agent process per system, rather than per login session. This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase from once per new login session to once every time your local machine is rebooted.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

Amazon has this services where you can use virtual servers, either your custom or prebuilt publicly shared server images. The key point here is that Amazon has a lot of servers that can be used at any time.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

Amazon has this services where you can use virtual servers, either your custom or prebuilt publicly shared server images. The key point here is that Amazon has a lot of servers that can be used at any time.

So let’s get started. The first thing to do is sign up at Amazon EC2. I’ll be using Ubuntu on this.

You need Java JRE, do:

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

vim .bashrc

# Amazon Ec2
export EC2_HOME=~/.ec2
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-VGKIRWAKVSIEXEPVFQ2NSVQ4APUMYAC3.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr
type bash to reload your bash_rc

cd ~/.ec2

ec2-add-keypair arstan-keypair

Save those lines including  —–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—– and also  —–END RSA PRIVATE KEY—– lines.

sudo chmod 600 id_rsa-arstan-keypair

ec2-describe-images -o amazon This will show the server images that Amazon has for you. You can see ec2-describe-images -a to see all the server images you have access to.

ec2-run-instances ami-0459bc6d -k arstan-keypair

ec2-describe-instances will show you instances you are running.

You can just enable ACPI and PAE/NX in the VirtualBox image General Settings and you are all set to install Ubuntu.

It’s been long time since I posted in my blog. It’s past midnight Wednesday (I love Selangor state for its public holidays!) and no office tomorrow.

I watched closely VirtualBox from its Sun acquisition and I am very pleased with the project progress overall. On my day to day RnD stuff I have already shifted myself from VMWare Sever to VirtualBox.

In VirtualBox after installing Ubuntu 8.04.1 Server (Hardy) and rebooting, you will get some errors that your CPU is not supported.

It’s because you have no linux-virtual package installed. So here’s the steps how to pass by this problem.

1. Reboot the instance, boot into Rescue a broken system
2. If you chose auto-partitioning, select sda1 as your root directory and enter into it.
3. Execute dhclient eth0, apt-get update && apt-get install linux-virtual
4. Type exit and reboot the system from the menu.

Now you will be able to boot into your newly installed Ubuntu.

Also in latest versions of Ubuntu my WLAN is taken as wlan0. I’m so much used to eth1 as my WLAN. Anyways, on my laptop I won’t have any additional LAN devices except my built in.

So, let’s change those things, shall we?

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

# PCI device 0×14e4:0×1600 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth1″

# PCI device 0×8086:0×4222 (iwl3945)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”wlan*”, NAME=”wlan0″

Change above to:

# PCI device 0×14e4:0×1600 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth0″

# PCI device 0×8086:0×4222 (iwl3945)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”, DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″, KERNEL==”wlan*”, NAME=”eth1″

So, all you have to do is to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and change the NAME option to your choice of your ethernet/wifi device name.

See bugs from Ubuntu Launchpad here and here.

This is my daily work laptop. Running xubuntu 8.0.4.1

What’s yours?

I am very thankful to my lovely wife for her care and patience. I am very thankful for my brothers Nurbek and Kamchybek, my sister Aijan to help me in every possible ways. My good friend Ades also stood up to give me a hand.

My boss at my work was also very kind to say “No worries, just get better”.

I came to understand that just walking itself is a very big thing, I fully understood those disabled people who can’t walk.

All of these made a good lesson, I have to be always thankful for my family and friends, for all that I have  and say Alhamdulillah.

So, I’ve been thinking of a car. Since I don’t have much experience, as a start I am thinking a low cost local car. I end up having to make choice between Proton Persona and Proton Saga(BLM).

So far I like Persona, but it’s slightly more expensive then Saga. Anyways, I still have time to make my mind up(and to get ready some cash) before I can really afford.

Searching in the internet for Proton Persona clubs, I came across this one – http://www.personaclub.net

This club is quite active, although if you aren’t local you might be a little bit lost coz some threads are in Malay language, or Minglish If you happened to be a Persona owner, you will be most welcome to join this club.

1. wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
2. apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd
3. tar -xzvf VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
4. cd vmware-server-distrib && ./vmware-install.pl
5. ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 && ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0

That’s it.

Yesterday I found the postal package on my table, it was from them.

I did go through the book roughly, I find it quite useful as a reference in your bookshelf. I will read through the book carefully and try to implement examples and how-tos in this book and write a full featured detailed review.

Until then stay tuned!

So here’s a note to myself on how to make raid in dell servers:

1. While booting the server, enter PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration Utility by pressing Control + M key.
2. From the Management menu select Configure option.
3. Select Clear Configuration from the Configure menu, Select Yes when prompted. At this point we have deleted all existing arrays and/or logical drives. Pressing Escape button go to Management menu.
4. Go to Clear option in Management menu. Select drives by pressing spacebar and when you see READY status flashing you press F10 button. Select Yes and you will be reformatting those drives. This will take some time depending on your drive capacity. With my drives (2×73GB) it took around 1hour ++. When it’s done press escape and reboot your server
5. Repeat Step 1.
6. Select Easy Configuration from Configure menu. Make sure all drives are in GREEN and READY state.
7. Using arrow keys select the drives one by one and press spacebar. This will change drives status from READY to ONLINE A00-00. Repeat this step for as much hard drives you have.
8. If you want to make a hot spare, select a hard drive you wanna make hot spare and press F4.
9. Select all ONLINE status drives and press F10. This will bring you Select Configurable Array(s) dialog. Now pressing spacebar you get A-00 window, here you should get Span-1. Press F10 key to verify your logical drive settings. Here you will get options of RAID-0 and RAID-1. When you made your mind and set your RAID configs go to Accept option and press enter. When prompted select YES.
10. Now it’s time to make our logical drive bootable. In Configure menu go to Specify Boot Drive and select Specify a Logical Drive as BootDrive. The number in Logical BootDrive set to 0. (This will change according to your drive configs). And press enter.
11. Pressing Escape button you quit from the menus and go to Exit dialog. Reboot your server and you are set to install your preferred OS now!

This note is for RAID-1 with 2×73GB SCSI hard drives. For your case it might be slightly different but the overall process should be something like this.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Here’s a snapshot of the PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration Utility