You might need to verify internet access. Are you connected via wireless or wired? Can you ping any IP? CentOS 5.4, Linux 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 athlon 07:05:30 up 1 day, 10:38, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.07, 0.07 On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 04:26 -0700, Joshua Gimer wrote: > Could you please post the full output of the yum update? Also, are you > using any additional yum repos outside of the default centos repo or > any plugins? > > Thanks > Josh > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> > wrote: > Hi, > > I recently downloaded and burned the 5.4 DVD ISO. All my > machines are > now running 5.4, but these are installs I performed with 5.0, > 5.1, 5.2 > etc. and then progressively upgraded. Now I had to use 5.4 > because a > friend's laptop, a brandnew Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile, refuses to > boot > anything under 5.4. > > After a fresh install of the base system, first thing I do is > 'yum > update' with the default setup... only this time, nothing > happens. I > stays about a minute or two on 'Determining fastest mirror'... > and then > tells me : > > "Could not retrieve mirrorlist..." > > On the other hand, 'yum update' on all the other installs > (from older > CentOS disks) works correctly. > > What's wrong? > > Niki > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > -- > Thx > Joshua Gimer > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos