Creating A Password Answer File; Preparing The Bundles For Upgrading; Section D.4, "Creating A Password Answer File; Section D.5, "Preparing The Bundles For Upgrading - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 Installation Manual

D.4 Creating a Password Answer File
For the upgrade process to run without user intervention, each SP1 server must have an eDirectory
password answer file for the YaST
An answer file can only be created in two circumstances:
On an OES 2 SP2 server you have already installed or upgraded.
or
During a regular offline upgrade, after the software is updated to SP2 and just prior to rebooting
the SP1 server that you are upgrading. (See
The answer file creation software is not available through the OES 2 SP1 patch channel.
To create the answer file:
1 As
root
2 Enter the following command:
sudo yast2 create-answer-file ldap_password optional_domain_admin_password
where ldap_password=the LDAP (eDirectory) Admin password and
optional_domain_admin_password=the Domain Services for Windows (DSfW) Domain
Administrator's password, if it is needed for any of the servers being upgraded. (The existence
of a second password in the answer file doesn't affect the upgrade process on servers that don't
have DSfW installed.)
IMPORTANT: All uses of an exclamation mark (!) require that you escape the character by
using a backslash (\). For example, the password novell! must be specified as
A dash (-) used at beginning of password also requires escaping. For example, -novell- must be
specified as
3 Press Enter to close the confirmation message.
4 Copy the resulting file named
you will use to prepare the bundles for upgrading in the next section,
Upgrading.
During the upgrade process, the
directory on each upgraded SP1 server by the OES2-SP2-File Bundle script you create in the
next section.
5 Continue with
D.5 Preparing the Bundles for Upgrading
Before you can use the downloaded bundles to upgrade your servers, you must do the following:
230 OES 2 SP2: Installation Guide
®
install.
, open a terminal prompt.
.
\-novell-
answer
answer
Preparing the Bundles for
Step 7 in "Performing the Upgrade" on page
from your working directory to the workstation or server
file is uploaded to the
Upgrading.
novell\!
Preparing the Bundles for
/opt/novell/oes-install
TM
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.