>From most mirrors I get error 404, the others just give me empty files. It is not a free space problem: [guy@sigurd ~]$ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb3 988244 313452 624592 34% / /dev/hdb2 132221 13998 111396 12% /boot none 257692 0 257692 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda6 5149344 3107864 1779908 64% /home /dev/hdb1 489992 10547 454145 3% /opt /dev/hda8 1026824 33384 941280 4% /tmp /dev/hdb5 6728280 4765108 1621392 75% /usr /dev/hdb6 1494204 371516 1046784 27% /var /dev/hda5 6191136 108384 5768260 2% /var/spool Below is one of my attempts: [guy@sigurd ~]$ sudo up2date --get-source kernel http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3 using mirror: http://mirror.stanford.edu/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/ http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3 using mirror: http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora- core/updates/3/i386/ Fetching all package list for channel: fedora-core-3... ######################################## Fetching all package list for channel: updates-released-fc3... ######################################## Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-3... Fetching http://mirror.stanford.edu/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os//headers/header.info... ######################################## Fetching package list for channel: updates-released-fc3... Fetching http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora- core/updates/3/i386//headers/header.info... ######################################## kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.src.rpm... ######################################## [guy@sigurd ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.src.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 27 17:01 /var/spool/up2date/kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.src.rpm Thanks in advance.