Ability to locate & copy
the installation software onto your hard disk.
Ability to extract the installation
software.
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Try This:
Make a staging directory
where you can unpack the installation software. Then use the browser
to copy the installation software into the staging directory. |
The staging directory is
just used for installation; it's not the location where the Server software
will ultimately reside. You can delete all the files in the staging
directory once the installation is complete. |
Try This:
Extract the installation
software. |
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Starting The Installation
Locate The Installation Software
The term "installation software" refers to the single large
zipped file that you'll find on the network or on the Netscape Directory
Server 4.0 CD. There are two possible sources for the installation
software: the network or CD.
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Network: If you have network access, you can download
the Directory 4 software from the iPlanet Test Drive site.
Be sure to select the Directory 4 International Edition for Solaris,
directory-4.0-export-eu.sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.tar.gz (38 MB).
You will have to register with the Test Drive site before you can download
the software.
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CD: If you're using a Directory Server CD, the installation
file is in the solaris folder.
Open the solaris folder and look for the directry folder.
Inside you'll find a single zip file (directry.tar) with the actual
Directory Server installation software.
Create A Staging Directory
Before you copy the installation software onto your local disk,
you'll need to create a staging directory which you'll use to unzip the
software and begin the installation. The zip file is about 38 MB;
after being unzipped it requires about 78 MB of space (including the original
38 MB zip file).
Create your staging directory by entering something like this:
cd /disk2 (or whatever
you have on your system)
mkdir dir4temp (or whatever name you want)
Copy The Installation Software
Once you've found a network source for the distribution software,
use the Save As function on your browser to download it into your
staging directory. When the Save As dialog box appears, be
sure to specify the location of your staging directory in the field marked
Save
Selection (the default location is probably not your staging directory).
You should now have a single file in your staging directory with a filename
similar to this:
directory-4.0-domestic-us.sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.tar.gz
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If you're using a CD, simply copy the installation software into your
staging directory. |
Extract The Installation Software
Assuming you've only got one file in your staging directory,
you can use the wildcard character "*" to specify its filename. This
will save you a lot of typing! We're going to pipe the output of
gunzip
directly to tar, so enter
gunzip -c * | tar -xvf -
This last step assumed you have gunzip in root's PATH.
If that isn't so, you can use the complete pathname for gunzip
:
/usr/local/bin/gunzip -c * | tar -xvf -
This Is What You've Got
After you've extracted the installation software you should
have a bunch of new files in the staging directory. Use the ls
-l command to double-check what you've got. Other than the dates,
your list of files should look something like this:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root other
46663 Nov 18 19:16 LICENSE.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root other
476 Nov 18 19:16 README.txt
drwxrwxr-x 2 root other
512 Dec 14 19:21 admin
drwxrwxr-x 2 root other
512 Dec 14 19:24 base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 38885532
Jan 11 20:27 directory-4.0-domestic-us.sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.tar.gz
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root other 1606652 Nov
18 19:16 setup
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root other
944 Dec 14 19:24 setup.inf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root other
5295 Jul 8 1998 silent.inf
drwxrwxr-x 2 root other
512 Dec 14 19:27 slapd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root other
1505 Dec 14 19:24 slapd.txt
drwxrwxr-x 2 root other
512 Dec 14 19:27 svrcore |
Note that some of these files are actually directories.
The only executable file in this list, and the one we'll be using in the
next section, is setup.
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