Installation guide

Creating a silent.xml File for Silent-Mode Installation
BEA Products Installation Guide 5-3
z The XML definition (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>) must be at
the very beginning of the
silent.xml file. There cannot be any spaces or line breaks
before the XML definition.
z You cannot reinstall any BEA product on top of a previously installed version of the same
product—in the same BEA Home directory or in the same file location. You can, however,
add products and product components to an existing installation. For example, you can
install WebLogic Server during one installation, and Workshop for WebLogic Platform
during a separate installation.Also to reinstall the same version of one of the products, you
must first uninstall the previously installed instance of it, as described in Chapter 8,
“Uninstalling the Software,” or install the new instance in another location.
Creating a silent.xml File for Silent-Mode Installation
When you install your BEA software in silent mode, the installation program uses an XML file
(
silent.xml) to determine which installation options should be implemented. Therefore, before
you can run the installation program in silent mode, you must first create a
silent.xml file in
which you specify the installation options that you want to have invoked.
Note: Incorrect entries in the
silent.xml file can cause installation failures. To help you
determine the cause of a failure, we recommend that you create a log file when you start
the installation.
To create a
silent.xml file for use in the silent-mode installation process, follow these steps:
1. In a supported browser, display the sample
silent.xml file for silent-mode installation. The
sample file is available at
http://e-docs.bea.com/common/docs92/install/scripts/silent.xml.
2. Save the sample XML file, with the name
silent.xml, in the same directory that contains
the installation program.
Note: The XML definition (
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>) must
be at the very beginning of the
silent.xml file. There cannot be any spaces or line
breaks before the XML definition.
3. In the
silent.xml file that you saved on your system, edit the values for the keywords shown
in Table 5-1 to reflect your configuration.
Note: You must follow XML guidelines for characters when modifying values. That is, you
cannot use characters reserved for use in XML, such as
<, >, [, and ].