unattended Install of Ignite

[Gerry Gerofsky]

Can I do an unattended install of Ignite?

How?

[Patrick Wallek]

What do you mean "unattended install of ignite"?

Can you please elaborate? Are you trying to install the Ignite/UX product itself? Or are you trying to install an Ignite image onto a machine?

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Sure,

Use the at command, run this command sequence.

swinstall -s \*

If you are referring to the installation of a system clone with Ignite? Not quite but almost.

Normally you initiate the ignite golden image clone or recovery from a menu. You could write a script to handle the menu.

Realistically, input a few menu items and the rest of the process is unattended. A great opportunity to drink coffee, get out of the office or answer itrc questions. I got started on this 4 1/2 years ago being bored during an Ignite golden image build.

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[Gerry Gerofsky]

I want to install Ignite on the server.

When I use swinstall it brings up a menu.

I want to rather use something like a response file where I provide all the parameters necessary and it does it job.

The end-result I want is a Perl script that takes the name of a server and goes and installs Ignite on a server without any user intervention.

[Patrick Wallek]

If you download Ignite and save the file as /var/tmp/ignite.depot, then it can be installed from the command line with the swinstall command like:

# swinstall -s /var/tmp/ignite \*

Wrap whatever type of script you want around that so that you can copy the Ignite depot to the other server or do whatever you want to do.