On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Clifford Snow wrote: > I've upgraded from FC2 to FC3 on a dell m600 laptop. The upgrade went > very smooth and painless. > > When I attempt to update using "yum update" yum fails with timeouts from > many of the mirror sites. Is anyone else experiencing similar > problems? The only .repo files enabled in my yum.repos.d directory are > fedora-updates.repo and fedora.repo. > > Is the problem just too many hits with everyone trying to upgrade? Yeah - some of the mirrors in the list could be at the other end of the globe - there is no way yum can choose the best mirror for the user. So, we have 2 alternatives: - let yum choose a mirror - and if you think its slow do 'Ctrl-C'. Yum will skip it - and try the next one. After the downloads are done - another invocation of yum will install the packages. - If there is a reliable/fast mirror closeby - then use 'baseurl' instead of 'mirrorlist' in /etc/yum.repo.d/*repo files. Satish
