multisite installation issue

I run many sites off single core.

Here's what I've done to make multisite work pretty good:

• Create mysql database with permissions
• cd ../drupal/sites/
• cp -R default/ newsite.com
• chmod o+w /sites/newsite.com/
• Add a zone file.
• Add the new site to the conf file.
• Add a ServerAlias in the vhost file.
• Restart *named*
• Direct my browser to newsite.com and run the install script ...

I can also add a new site to a subdomain(s) (site1.mysite.com and site2.site1.mysite.com) by adding "A" records to the mysite.com zone file.

Setting the site_name or site_mail override variable will break installation when no user table is present, because it'll prevent you from creating the first administrator account.

related bug report: http://drupal.org/node/212284

you will need to put site_name and site_mail in comments during installation.