yum fails

[gary]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:35 +0100, roland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a server RedHat 9 (so an old version) and I am trying to do an  
> install or update with yum. This fails:
> 
> [root at global WORK]# yum install kpdf
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux 9 -- Fedora US mirror
> retrygrab() failed for:
>    http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
>    Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file  
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info
> [Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
> 
> Is there someone who knows what this means? The contents of /etc/yum.conf  
> you can see at:
> http://roland.dns2go.com/examples/yum.conf
> 

 You might check with these folks = http://fedoralegacy.org/
Their website indicates they're supporting 9 .   -----gary