Fedora Update Tool

Mark admin at kclinux.net
Wed Jan 21 13:36:51 UTC 2004


as root, edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources 

find the line that starts with yum updates-released 

change URL to faster mirror located at
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html


On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 07:36, Phil Savoie wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I just did a fresh install of Fedora and am in the middle of using RHN to 
> update the os.  The trick here is that the connection is extremely slow as 
> evidenced below:
> 
> kernel-doc-2.4.22-1.2149.np #                          16 k/sec, 00:01:37 rem.
> 
> Is there a way to find out which server is being used for the update and use 
> another one?  I feel that I will have grandkids before this whole process is 
> done at this speed.  I do have cable modem so there *should* be no reason why 
> it is this slow.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Phil Savoie
> 





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