Hello, Thought I'd share my kickstart file for preparing a Centos 6.4 x86_64 build for ISPConfig 3 deployment. I use this when messing about with different installations and need to quickly prepare a test machine. After use: - mysql_secure_installation needs to be run - quota needs to be setup on relevant volume - mailman needs to be configured (could add in to kickstart I don't use it) - suphp (if really wanted) and mod_ruby to be installed A few notes in no particular order: - max 5 min install on fast internet connection as lots of packages are dragged from online repo's. However, takes about 20 minutes on a ~3mbit connection - to be expected. - I do a minimal install then build up from there accordingly, either through naming packages or allowing Yum to auto-detect dependencies. This can be expanded on adding files in as appropriate. - you can install manually then inspect /root/anaconda-ks.cfg to see the equivalent kickstart file for your install to grab, eg. country settings etc. - if you're doing anything funky with RAID partitions and you inspect /root/anaconda-ks.cfg afterwards note the order listed is WRONG - all the #part statements have to go BEFORE the #raid statements otherwise it simply won't work. - I turn off iptables service as I deploy my own firewall scripts afterwards. - change ip addresses as appropriate for both your pxe server, location of install image served over http and ip addresses, mask, gateway, hostname and dns of target server. Make dhcp if appropriate, add the packages back in if required. - sed commands could well be optimised, all ideas welcome! - now researching building a kickstart file on the fly containing relevant addresses for a specific server. Looking to integrate with something like cobbler as appropriate. - also researching a custom "firstboot" type script, rather like "Elastix" installation which will go on and do, eg mysql_secure_installation, configure other packages required and then perhaps download, unpack and fire off installer for ISPConfig. Monk Code: install text reboot url --url=http://192.168.200.250/images/CentOS-6.4-x86_64 lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard uk network --onboot yes --device eth0 --noipv6 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.200.55 --gateway 192.168.200.14 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --nameserver 192.168.200.250 --hostname ispsvn.myco.lcl rootpw --iscrypted <myrootpassword> firewall --service=ssh authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 selinux --disabled timezone --utc Etc/GMT bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet" clearpart --drives=sda --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=256 part / --fstype=ext4 --size=5120 part /var --fstype=ext4 --size=5120 part swap --size=1024 part /tmp --fstype=ext4 --size=256 part /home --fstype=ext4 --size=5120 %packages --nobase @core @british-support @server-policy -aic94xx-firmware -atmel-firmware -bfa-firmware -ipw2100-firmware -ipw2200-firmware -ivtv-firmware -iwl1000-firmware -iwl100-firmware -iwl3945-firmware -iwl4965-firmware -iwl5000-firmware -iwl5150-firmware -iwl6000-firmware -iwl6000g2a-firmware -iwl6050-firmware -libertas-usb8388-firmware -ql2100-firmware -ql2200-firmware -ql23xx-firmware -ql2400-firmware -ql2500-firmware -rt61pci-firmware -rt73usb-firmware -zd1211-firmware #dont need broadcom -b43-openfwwf #dont need dhcp - static address set -dhclient -dhcp-common #pciutils pciutils #wget wget #ssh tools libedit openssh-clients #tcpdump libpcap tcpdump #file loation mlocate #iptraf iptraf # yum utilities yum-utils deltarpm yum-presto yum-plugin-downloadonly #lynx centos-indexhtml lynx #vim-enhanced gpm-libs perl-Pod-Escapes perl-libs perl-version perl-Module-Pluggable perl-Pod-Simple perl vim-common vim-enhanced #preliink prelink #ntp ntpdate ntp #tmpwatch tmpwatch #rsync rsync #zip zip unzip %post #add hostname to /etc/hosts echo 192.168.2.55 ispsvn.myco.lcl >> /etc/hosts #Install RPMForge and EPEL Repositories rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm #add priority to EPEL sed -i -e "s/enabled\=1/priority\=10\nenabled=1/g" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo #install components for ispconfig yum install quota httpd mod_ssl mysql-server php php-mysql php-mbstring dovecot dovecot-mysql dovecot-pigeonhole getmail amavisd-new spamassassin clamav clamd unrar perl-DBD-mysql php php-devel php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-pecl-apc php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-snmp php-soap php-tidy curl curl-devel perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 libxml2-devel mod_fcgid php-cli httpd-devel gcc gcc-c++ make automake httpd-devel ruby ruby-devel mod_python pure-ftpd openssl bind bind-utils webalizer awstats perl-DateTime-Format-HTTP perl-DateTime-Format-Builder fail2ban rkhunter telnet screen -y #enable services chkconfig --del clamd chkconfig amavisd on chkconfig clamd.amavisd on chkconfig dovecot on chkconfig httpd on chkconfig iptables off chkconfig ip6tables off chkconfig mysqld on chkconfig netfs off chkconfig ntpd on chkconfig pure-ftpd on chkconfig saslauthd on #make required ispconfig changes to php sed -i -e "s/^;cgi.fix_pathinfo\=1/cgi.fix_pathinfo\=1/g" /etc/php.ini sed -i -e "s/^error_reporting = E_ALL \& ~E_DEPRECATED/error_reporting = E_ALL \& ~E_NOTICE/g" /etc/php.ini #make required ispconfig change to fail2ban conf file sed -i -e "s/^logtarget \= SYSLOG/logtarget \= \/var\/log\/fail2ban.log/g" /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf #create named.conf.local file required for ispconfig touch /etc/named.conf.local #get ispconfig from build server mkdir /home/install mkdir /home/install/ispconfig wget http://192.168.200.250/kickstart/ISPConfig-3.0.5.2.tar.gz -O /home/install/ispconfig/ISPConfig-3.0.5.2.tar.gz