After you create a response file, you run the silent install.
Before you begin
Check user requirements before installing. Rational® Team products require administrator
access.
Procedure
- Go to the local computer where you want to install the Rational product.
- Mount a directory or map a shared drive from the shared
network drive to the local computer. The drive letter of the response
file must match the mounted directory or shared drive. If it does
not, edit the response file to change the drive letter.
The
following example shows a repository location in a response file:
Windows® systems<server>
<repository location='g:\installation_files\Rational_Product'/>
</server>
Linux® or UNIX® systems<server>
<repository location='/installation_files/Rational_Product'/>
</server>
- On the local computer, navigate to the Installation Manager
directory on the shared drive that contains the extracted installation
files. On Windows,
this location is install_files\InstallationManager.
On Linux or UNIX systems, the location is /install_files/InstallationManager.
For example:
Windows systemsg:\installation_files\EnterpriseCD-platform\InstallationManager
where
g:\ points to the shared drive from the network shared drive.
Linux or UNIX systems /installation_files/InstallationManager
- Run the silent install command for administrators to install
the Rational product.
Use the response file you recorded as the value for the -input option.
For Windows, this
command is of the form installc.exe --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
-input<responseFile>. For Linux or UNIX,
this command is of the form install --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
-input <responseFile>
Note: On Windows, use installc.exe,
not install.exe, for silent installs. Use install.exe only
for installations that are not silent or when recording a response
file.
Here are some examples:
Windows systemsg:\installation_files\EnterpriseCD-platform\InstallationManager\installc.exe
--launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input g:\installation_files\response_files\install_clearcase71.xml
Linux or UNIX systems./installation_files/EnterpriseCD-platform/InstallationManager/install
--launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input root/installation_files/response_files/install_clearcase71.xml