Installation guide

Using Silent Installation

68 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • December 2003

2. Create a new directory:

# mkdir ds

# cd ds

If you have not already done so, download the product binaries file to the

installation directory.

4. On Windows machines, unzip the product binaries. On UNIX, unpack the

product binaries file using the following command:

# gunzip -dc filename.tar.gz | tar -xvof-

where filename corresponds to the product binaries file that you want to unpack.

5. Prepare the file that will contain your installation directives.

See “Preparing Silent Installation Files” on page 68 for instructions and for

some examples of the silent-install files.

6. Fill in appropriate values for the installation directives.

See “Specifying Silent Installation Directives” on page 73 for the complete list

of silent installation directives that you can use when installing Directory

Server.

7. Run the setup program with the -s and -f command line options:

setup -s -f filename

where filename is the name of the file that contains your installation directives.

Preparing 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. To do this, run

setup with the -k flag. The setup program will create

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.