problem with yum

[greg.knaddison at gmail.com (Greg Knaddison)]

On 11/19/05, Roger D Vargas <luo_hei@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I installed centos 4.2 but I cant get yum working, i always get a
> timeout error with repodata/primary.xml.gz from base.
> How can i solve this?
>

Are you behind a proxy?  Can you paste the URL that yum complains
about into your web browser and retrieve the file?  Can you ping the
repository server?

Thanks,
Greg