Am 15.11.09 08:29, schrieb Niki Kovacs: > 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..." So can you get a mirrorlist by hand? Can you reach the mirrorlist.centos.org server? Are you behind a proxy? See CentOS-Base.repo for the mirrorhost url and replace $arch with your architecture and $releasever with 5 ... Ralph