Fedora5 - Problems with FTP install

[Reg Clemens]

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.


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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com