[Fedora-directory-users] schema extension via ldif at install time

[Brian K. Jones]

Hi all, 

I want to perform a custom installation of FDS, and when it asks for the ldif 
file to be imported, I want to point it at a file that contains ldif to 
extend the schema, and add the entries dumped from my old openldap directory. 

Without extending the schema, the import will fail because every entry 
violates the default schema. However, turning schema checking off leaves some 
small chance that there is something in my directory that shouldn't be there 
or isn't as it should be. 

I have another installation of FDS on a test machine, and I used the GUI to 
add my extra objects and attributes, and I tried copying the resulting ldif 
to the server I'm now trying to install (minus operational stuff), but the 
install ignored the cn=schema part of my LDIF file (the part holding the 
schema extensions), and subsequently, all of the entries failed. 

Has anyone done this? Any clues? Is there somewhere I can place a 99user.ldif 
file *before* running setup that will cause the slapd instance to use it the 
first time it starts up? 
Thanks, 
brian.