Preparing Silent Installation Files - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 7.0 Installation Manual

Using Silent Installation
Create a new directory:
2.
If you have not already done so, download the product binaries file to the
3.
installation directory.
On Windows machines, unzip the product binaries. On UNIX, unpack the
4.
product binaries file using the following command:
where
unpack.
Prepare the file that will contain your installation directives.
5.
See "Preparing Silent Installation Files‚" on page 54, for instructions and for
some examples of the silent-install files.
Fill in appropriate values for the installation directives.
6.
See "Specifying Silent Installation Directives‚" on page 59, for the complete list
of silent installation directives that you can use when installing Directory
Server.
Run the
7.
where

Preparing Silent Installation Files

The best way to create a file for use with silent installation is to use the
program to interactively create a server instance of the type that you want to
duplicate. To do this, run
the following file:
serverRoot/setup/install.inf
This file contains all the directives that you would use with silent installation to
create the server instance. You can then use this file to create other server
instances of that type.
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# mkdir ds
# cd ds
# gunzip -dc filename.tar.gz | tar -xvof-
corresponds to the product binaries file that you want to
filename
program with the
setup
setup -s -f filename
is the name of the file that contains your installation directives.
filename
setup
and command-line options:
-s -f
with the flag. The
-k
setup
program will create
setup