Fedora5 - Problems with FTP install

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jul 26 10:51:42 UTC 2006


Reg Clemens wrote:
> Im trying a FTP install  for the first time. 
> I  made a subdirectory under my ftp tree,
>         /home/ftp/fedora5/ftp-install
> and put in it 
>         base, RPMS, TRANS.TBL, RELEASE-NOTES and RELEASE-NOTES-en.html
> 
> When I try the install, I first gave it the directory
>     fedora5/ftp-install
> but that errored out, saying that it couldnt find the directory repodata .
> I found that odd, but then gave it
>     fedora5/ftp-install/RPMS
> and it seemed happy.
> 
> But only for a step or two.
> After I had given it the root password (twice) and hit return, I got a screen
> that said 'Exception Occurred" and "An unhandled exception has occurred ... "
> with NO details.
> 
> So my questions are:
> (1) Is this a known problem with the FTP install in Fedora5?
> (2) Did I miss something in my install above?
> (3) and what about this bit of having to go down to RPMS in specifying a
>     directory?  If thats the case the install program would have to back up
>     to get to the files in the directory above it, which seems dangerous
>     (symbolic links, ...)
> 
> Any and all thoughts appreciated,- this looks like a neat way to do the 
> install on multiple machines, if only I can get it to work.

I think you need the "Fedora" directory and the "repodata" directory in 
your "ftp-install" directory.

Paul.




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