Re: Can't update Fedora Linux Core 1

G'Day Charles,

FC1 has moved to Fedora Legacy - so the settings for YUM and APT will
have to be changed.

Please try FC2 or FC3.


Cheers,
Richard.

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 08:24 +0000, Charles Lei wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> New to this group and a Linux newbie -- although I do have a computer science 
> undergrad degree and spent 10 years doing Unix/SQL in my previous life back in 
> the US.  (Glad to have the shell prompt and vi editor as opposed to the DOS 
> edit stuff...) :-)
> 
> Anyway, installed Fedora Core 1 Linux but am having a heck of a time trying to
> get the redhat/fedora upgrade function to work.  I even tried using just "yum" 
> to no avail...
> 
> Note that I managed to get Java,Flash,LimeWire and FireFox installed.
> 
> At this time, I would like to install a video player that works as mplayer is 
> disabled from this distribution.  Couldn't get any of the other ones to compile 
> without Fedora being updated...
> 
> I noticed that my Beijing Telecom ADSL Internet connection isn't the smoothest.
> Don't always get the website I want -- need to hit reload a few times before it 
> works.
> 
> Fudementally, it looks like it's not finding the upgrade server all the time 
> hence it's timing out.
> 
> Appreciate any advise on how to get this working...
> 
> --Charles
> 
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