Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.01 Installation Manual

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Preparing Silent Installation Files56 Netscape Directory Server Installation Guide • March 20025. On Windows NT and Windows 2000, unzip the product binaries.6. Prepare the file that will contain your installation directives.7. Run the setup program with the -s and -f command line options:setup -s -ffile_namewhere 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. Asection describing all of the silent installation directives that you can use wheninstalling Directory Server then follows.Preparing Silent Installation FilesSilent installation is intended for use at sites where many server instances must becreated. For Directory Server, it is especially useful for heavily replicated sites thatwill create a large number of consumer servers.This section first describes how to create silent installation files. It then providesexamples of using silent installation to support the following common installationscenarios:• A Typical Installation• Using an Existing Configuration Directory• Installing the Stand-Alone Netscape ConsoleYou find a definition of the individual installation directives in “InstallationDirectives,” on page 60.Creating Silent Installation FilesThe best way to create a file for use with silent installation is to use the setupprogram to interactively create a server instance of the type that you want toduplicate around your enterprise.NOTE Any Distinguished Names in the files must be in the UTF-8 character setencoding.