Try This: Make sure you can access a copy of the Directory Server binaries. If you're using a CD-ROM, put it in your drive and make sure you can see the files on it. If you're using the network, make sure you can reach Netscape's external site: http://home.netscape.com.
Factoid: The Directory Server installation process actually installs 3 separate functional components: the Directory Server, the Admin Server, and Netscape Console. Since the Directory Server is managed through the Admin Server and Netscape Console, all 3 components are needed.
| # Installation Overview ### Typical Installation The Netscape Directory Server can be installed with 3 different levels of configuration: Express Typical Custom In this course we'll cover the Typical installation option. ### How To Use This Module The best way to use this module is to actually go through the steps involved with the preinstallation process on a "live" system. You can do this by displaying these web pages on the same system where you plan to install the Server. In this case you would follow the instructions in this module in one window (the browser window) and perform most of your preinstallation exercises in another window (a command line shell window). This is the way most students will use this module. You could also use two separate systems: one for your web browser which would be displaying this module, and one for installing the server. If you have the luxury of having two separate systems side-by-side this would be a good way to go through this module. Another way to use this module would be to print out all the pages in this module and then use the hard copy version of these instructions in the same way you would use a conventional installation manual. The advantage of this method is that you could make notes on the paper version as you proceed through the installation process. ### Installation Without Network Access If you are not connected to a network you may want to print these pages and use them "off line". Since the Directory Server installation process assumes access to either a CD-ROM or the network, if you don't have network access you'll have to use your CD-ROM drive for the installation software. Since very few systems have two CD-ROM drives you won't be able to access web pages from a separate CD-ROM. Of course, if you're really ambitious you could copy all the pages for this course onto you hard drive and then point your browser to the copied version. That way your CD-ROM drive would be free to hold the installation software.

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