Updating Busted By Busy Servers?

Gilbert Sebenste sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu
Wed Dec 3 17:12:18 UTC 2003


On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, nosp wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:59, billg wrote:
> > I reinstalled FC1 this afternoon. Once the install finished, I went
> > straight to up2date.  Judging by the extremely slow transfer rates,  the
> > servers were pegged. 
> 
> I'd recommend people try mirrors.kernel.org or one of the other FC
> mirrors on http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html .  Plenty of
> bandwidth out there.  Change /etc/yum.conf and/or
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.

Nosp,

I just downloaded the kernel source file through a mirror site, via the 
web. It finally worked. Thanks, all, for the help!

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