I attempted to limit my search to Fedora Core 3 and updates using: the search string "Core 3" AND update. Nonetheless, the first item in the list was for Fedora Core 1 ...
There are just too many hits that are seemingly randomly ordered by date to be certain what I am encountering has not been previously answered.
So forgive me if this is repetitious.
The install went fairly well on an older IBM laptop that previously "worked" with Mandrake 9.1 Pro. After connecting to the Internet I began to be bothered by the notice indicating I should update the Fedora Core 3 installation. Despite all variations, no matter combination and no matter how small the list of selected packages, at the end of the load I receive a message of failing to find a critical package. It is of the form:
"Error while attempting to retrieve the package [insert the name selected] ... The message was:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http: [gives what appear to be reasonable web site locations] Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found"
I tried to update emacs alone, bash, Firefox as well as part of the kernel and in every case I ran into this form of failure. I have heard too often about the ability to update Fedora to not think something I am doing is at fault. What dumb thing am I doing that is causing me this grief?
TIA