mcclnx mcc wrote: > Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os > >> error was >> >>> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> >>> >>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base >>> that error seems to indicate you can't read that URL. at a shell prompt, try... $ wget -O - --progress=dot "http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os" --14:35:00-- http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os Resolving mirrorlist.centos.org... 204.15.73.243, 72.232.223.58 Connecting to mirrorlist.centos.org|204.15.73.243|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/plain] Saving to: `STDOUT' http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://updates.interworx.info/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/CentOS/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirrors.cmich.edu/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirror.nuvio.com/pub/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/centos/5.3/os/i386/ http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/5.3/os/i386/ 0K 21.8M=0s 14:35:00 (21.8 MB/s) - `-' saved [494] as you are in .tw, likely you'd get a different set of URLs back. if you get errors, debug that.