Before Installing

Before beginning the tasks in the chapter, you should have developed an installation sequence and ensured that any general installation requirements and prerequisites are met. After completing these tasks, you are ready to install.

This section addresses the following topics:

• Verifying Prerequisites

• Getting the Software

• How to Use the Text-Based Interface

Verifying Prerequisites

Refer to Verifying Installation Prerequisites for specific information on prerequisites for this release of Java ES.

You can find system requirements listed in Platform Requirements and Issues in Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Update 1 Release Notes.

Information on some common situation that might affect the order of installation can be found in Table 2–1.

Getting the Software

• For Download. Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the Java ES installation bundle and expand the bundle. For example:

  unzip java_es-5u1–solaris-sparc.zip

  You will see a Copyright file, a README directory and the operating system directory, for example, Solaris_sparc. In the operating system directory, you will see the Product directory, the release_info file, and the installer script.

For additional information on getting the Java ES software, refer to Getting the Java ES Software.

How to Use the Text-Based Interface

The text-based installer does not display a graphical interface, but instead prompts you for information using a series of queries. The following table describes how to respond to the installer’s text-based prompts.

Table 4–1 Responding to the Text-Based Installer Prompts

Action	Input
To accept default values, as indicated in square brackets [ ]	Press Return.
To select items from a list	Type the numbers for the items in a comma-separated sequence and press Return. Spaces are not allowed. For example, to select item 2 in a list, type 2 and press Return. To select items 1, 3, and 4, type 1,3,4 and press Return.
To deselect items from a list	Type the numbers for the items in a comma-separated sequence, entering the minus character (-) before each number, and press Return. Spaces are not allowed. For example, to deselect item 2 from the list, type -2 and press Return. To deselect items 1, 3, and 4, type -1,-3,-4 and press Return.
To provide a value to a text field	Type the value and press Return.
To provide a password	Type the password and press Return.  The password will not appear on the terminal window.  Note: For the Java ES installer, white space cannot be used in admin passwords, nor can the following symbols: ; & ( ) ! | < > ' “ $ ^ \ # / , @ %
To return to the previous page	Type the left angle (<) character and press Return.
To exit the session	Type the exclamation mark character (!) and press Return.