Installation guide

Preparing Silent Installation Files
42 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • May 2002
5. Prepare the file that will contain your installation directives; for details, see
“Preparing Silent Installation Files,” on page 42.
6. Run the setup program with the -s and -f command line options:
setup -s -f filename
where the -s option indicates the silent mode of installation and filename
specifies the name of the INF file that contains your installation directives.
The next section shows some examples of the silent install files. Silent installation
directives that you can us e when installing Directory Server is covered in sections
that follow.
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 s ites 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 Standalone Netscape Console
You find a definition of the individual installation directives in “Installation
Directives,” o n page 46.
NOTE The
silent.inf file provided with the Directory Server is merely a
template, an example of how to write your own. For the file to work,
many of the parameters (hostname, ports, pathsandsoon)in the file
must be replaced with appropriate values.
It is also easy to generate your own silent installation file using the
setup -k option, and modify the resulting install.inf file as
needed.