I've tried using a mirror as many have suggested: I have: yum fedora-core-1 http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os yum updates-released http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386 (all on one two lines) when I run up2date -u I get: There was some sort of I/o error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer I've verified this mirror works in a web browser... any ideas? -- Tech Support (ChiliTech) <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>