Running multiple silent installations on the same machine

About this task

You can perform multiple silent installations on the same machine by using the following steps.

Procedure

  1. Complete an initial installation recording in GUI or text mode, as described in Recording a GUI-based installation or Recording a text-based interactive installation.
  2. Modify the silent installation file, response.xml, by editing the permissible values as needed. Silent install file parameters contains information about the parameters that you can modify.
  3. You can create multiple silent response files.

    You can save response.xml to create multiple variations of it, as long as they are named differently; for example, response1.xml, response2.xml, and so forth. You must also ensure that they have different profile IDs in them. Edit each response.xml so that it has a unique profile ID number, such as 1, 2, 3, and so forth. Edit both instances of the profile ID that are in the file.

    For example:
    <profile id='IBM Sterling Selling And Fulfillment Suite_1' installLocation=...>
    <offering id='...' version='...' profile='IBM Sterling Selling And Fulfillment Suite_1' features='...' installFixes='none'/>

    For information about installing with a silent file, see Running a silent installation