Preparing Silent Installation Files; Creating Silent Installation Files - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 Installation Manual

Preparing Silent Installation Files

On Windows NT and Windows 2000, unzip the product binaries.
5.
Prepare the file that will contain your installation directives.
6.
Run the setup program with the
7.
setup -s -f file_name
where file_name is the name of the file that contains your installation directives.
The next section in this chapter provides some examples of the silent install files. A
section describing all of the silent installation directives that you can use when
installing Directory Server then follows.
Preparing Silent Installation Files
Silent installation is intended for use at sites where many server instances must be
created. For Directory Server, it is especially useful for heavily replicated sites that
will create a large number of consumer servers.
This section first describes how to create silent installation files. It then provides
examples of using silent installation to support the following common installation
scenarios:
• A Typical Installation
• Using an Existing Configuration Directory
• Installing the Stand-Alone Netscape Console
You find a definition of the individual installation directives in "Installation
Directives," on page 60.
NOTE

Creating Silent Installation Files

The best way to create a file for use with silent installation is to use the setup
program to interactively create a server instance of the type that you want to
duplicate around your enterprise.
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Any Distinguished Names in the files must be in the UTF-8 character set
encoding.
and command line options:
-s -f