need new repo list for fedora 12

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Fri Sep 3 20:53:50 UTC 2010


On 09/03/2010 08:35 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
<snip>

> That's the question. Does network access work with F12 after your fresh
> reinstall? And even if tools other than "curl" can access the network,
> it may still be that curl needs an update before it would work.

ok.

<snip>

> Dubious. That's the IP address of the name server at Red Hat.
> download.fedora.redhat.com is 209.132.183.67

thank you for correct ipa.


> If you're capable of editing Yum .repo files, it is possible to
> go into /etc/yum.repos.d and modify fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo

as long as i have 'vi'. :)


> Where you see the lines
> 
>   #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
>   mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
> 
> You drop the leading '#' from the baseurl=... line and replace
> "download.fedoraproject.org  with download.fedora.redhat.com  OR the
> IP address posted above. If you then still cannot access that repo,
> something's wrong with your networking.

ok.

"off to see the wizard". boot f12, that is. ;)

back when.

thanks for your help.

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