That helps. I didn't know if yum had a more automated way of picking the mirror then simply han simply editing by hand. I didn't to rtfm yum because I figured this type of functionality was a seperate program but I'll go do that thanks Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Dawes" <sdawes@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 11:27 AM Subject: RE: installing fc4 > Sean, > Take a look at a *.repo file found in /etc/yum.repos.d/ > In this file you will see a line that starts with > mirrorlist = > This is where you put a list of ftp://, http://, or file:// entries. > This is where yum is made aware of the locations of the many repositories. > man yum will tell you lots of good stuff. There is also some good howto > information. google yum howto and you will find lots. > > Steve > > Steve Dawes > Calgary Canada. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup