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Complete a custom silent installation
Overview
To complete a custom silent installation, we edit a response file, which contains answers to all of the prompts in the install wizard. This allows you to run the silent installation without interacting with it.
Procedure
- Verify machines meet all the requirements.
- Prepare database servers
- Prepare Web servers
- Prepare systems to run the WebSphere Commerce installation wizard
- WebSphere Commerce media must be available during the silent install. You will not be prompted to change disks during the install. You can also copy media to your file system.
- Log on to the system:
- Windows: Log onto your system as a user with Administrative authority.
- AIX, Linux, Solaris: Ensure that you are logged onto the system as root. Ensure you load the root environment by running the command with the "-" parameter. For example:
su - root
- Copy the following file from the install media to temporary directory. For example
cp /media/path/to/wcresponsefile.txt /tmp
- Edit...
wcresponsefile.txt
- Run the install. For example, for AIX...
./media/path/to/setup_aix -silent -options /tmp/wcresponsefile.txt