Chapter 4 Silent Installation; Using Silent Installation - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.0 Installation Manual

Silent installation allows you to use a file to predefine all the answers that you
would normally supply to the setup program interactively. This provides you with
the ability to script the installation of your Netscape Directory Servers (Directory
Servers).
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Using Silent Installation (page 51)
• Preparing Silent Installation Files (page 52)
• Installation Directives (page 56)

Using Silent Installation

To use silent installation, you call the setup program with the
line options. That is, to use silent installation:
On UNIX machines, log in as
1.
machines, log in with Administrator privileges.
Create a new directory:
2.
# mkdir 6.0
# cd ds6.0
If you have not already done so, download the product binaries file to the
3.
installation directory.
On UNIX, unpack the product binaries file using the following command:
4.
# gunzip -dc file_name .tar.gz | tar -xvof-
where file_name corresponds to the product binaries that you want to unpack.
Silent Installation
. On Windows NT and Windows 2000
root
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and command
-s -f
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