use a mirror http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Wolcott" <lionofdharma@xxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:59 PM Subject: up2date - why does it take so long??? > I am running FC1 on a PIII 733 with 128 MB of ram. > FC1 runs generally well on my machine, but up2date has > never worked well. My connection is on the backbone > of a major U.S. research university, so speed is not > an issue. > > I just reinstalled FC1 from CD. Of course, there > were a ton of updates in the Red Hat Network Alert > tool. When I run up2date, it takes forever. Most > of the updates are coming at about 10-15k per second. > > > I know there are other tools out there to run updates, > like yum, but I want something that is automatic. I > am the type of linux user that doesn't want to touch a > command line. I am not in the computer field, I just > have a geek streak in me that is attracted to linux. > > 1) Why is up2date so slow? Is there something to > speed it up, like chances where the updates come from? > > 2) What tools out there are there to run automatic > updates? > > Thanks, > > Todd > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
