On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 23:01:43 -0400, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 03 July 2004 22:19, Robert Locke wrote: > >http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware > > > >Frankly, I just downloaded the yum.conf, like they recommended, and > > it added a good set of repo's. > > > So did I, and got this when I ran a 'yum update': > > [root@coyote etc]# yum update > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base > retrygrab() failed for: > http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/headers/header.info > Executing failover method Snip more failure messages... > What do I check next? Hi Gene, It looks like you used the FC2 yum.conf instead of the one for FC1. Assuming you're using FC1, check this page instead: http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/#WhereCanIGetSoftware -- Jerry