On Sunday 04 July 2004 15:54, Jeff Vian wrote: [...] >> >Bingo! The problem is with the yum.conf trying to hit the redhat >> > server which is overloaded. Try using the sample yum.conf >> > available at this url: >> > >> >http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf >> > >> >You'll see a big improvement! >> >> And this one works, except I forgot to put in the exclude=kernel* >> line :-) >> >> >Hope this helps, >> >Clint > >Clint: >Why do you use the "exclude=kernel"? Because I have been running bleeding edge 2.6 kernels since this was a rh8 box, and all the utilities for that are already in place. I don't even know if a 2.4 series kernel will even boot on this machine although I still have about 3 of them as the first 3 entries in my grub.conf. Currently running 2.6.7-mm3 because the -mm4 and -mm5's have a truely serious network speed problem on this machine as well as many others who've reported it on lkml. I can't code very well anymore, not on this "big iron" but have done many many hundreds of kilobytes on the 8/16 bitters in decades past, some in an early dialect of C, some in assembly, and almost as much with nothing more than a machine code monitor to enter hex code with. I'm gettin on in years (69) as they say, but I can sure build the latest kernels and supply "another set of eyeballs" type reports to the rest of the list readers. Besides, the one time I let the older up2date do a kernel for me, the box was dead on the reboot (the new kernel up2date put in wasn't for my hardware) and I had to go find a floppy boot that worked and edit the lilo and rerun it, which put my firewall out of business for a day while I scrounged up the floppy from a friend running the same distro on the same mobo. We have a saying here in West Virginia, country boy dumb maybe, but not stupid. Or at least I'd like to think so. :-) [...] -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.
