Ability to locate & copy the installation software onto your hard disk. Ability to extract the installation software.
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.
> | # 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. 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. 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`
> | 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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