Problem with YUM???

[Richard E Miles]

> r.godzilla at comcast.net wrote:
> >>I am new to linux and have been playing with FC2 for a few days.  Today 
> >>I decided to start up YUM and download the latest kernal update and so 
> >>far I have had no luck.  YUM comes up with several items to download and 
> >>one is the kernal and it cannot get it done.  It keeps havin an error 
> >>and  restarts to down the kernal again.  It appears that the download is 
> >>not working and my question is it the YUM on my box or something else.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> > 
> > It's probably because the fedora download site is overloaded. Try a mirror
> > repository close to your locale.
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
> 
> I was given a site for a updated yum.conf file but am having a problem. 
> I can get the file into a VIM file named /etc/yum.conf but cannot save 
> the file.  Not sure what is wrong but would welcome any suggestions.  I 
> first perserved the yum.conf file by using the CD /etc command under 
> root.  That file does not exist but cannot write the file in the VIM 
> program in place of it even though VIM shows that the file is named 
> yum.conf.  It seems some type of restriction is on that file name or 
> something.  Hope I have explained enough that you understand my problem.
> 
> Help will be greatly appreciated.
> 

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Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097