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Hey David,
That's an interesting idea. I actually toyed with the idea very early on, because I'd used kickstart heavily in my old company. I even used a configuration script package much like the virtualmin-base (called procyon-base, even, and virtualmin-base was based on it to start with).
The only reason I didn't offer one from the beginning was that so many of our customers early on weren't hosting providers--they would rent their boxes with the OS already installed. But for our mass-hosting customers, on which we have to focus our sales attention, it obviously makes a lot of sense.
I'll add this to my todo list. Expect it in the next couple of weeks (and please ping me, if I forget).
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Hi Joe,
Yeah, me too!
Not just for Resellers, but people professionally needing to add lotsa domains for marketing campaigns, too.
(When some of us get going... finally) :-)
Himagain
<div class='quote'>Not just for Resellers, but people professionally needing to add lotsa domains for marketing campaigns, too. </div>
We're talking two different things here.
You can already script creation of domains--everything in the Virtualmin UI is scriptable. To create a domain:
/usr/sbin/virtualmin create-domain --domain example.com --pass password
And, of course, all options are also available. Extensive documentation is available for the command line tools here:
http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,command_line_api/
What David is wishing for is a Red Hat kickstart configuration file, which with the proper setup (including a tftp server, DHCPd, and a netboot configuration) allows someone to rapidly install many identical machines with an identical software stack. Unless you've got a dozen identical servers (or a few hundred or a few thousand) that need an identical OS and Virtualmin installation, then you don't want the hassle of setting up the kickstart environment. ;-)
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