A lot of people are having that problem as Texstar remarks here http://66.69.180.165:8080/article.php?sid=1055&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 It seems to be related to the servers rather than your computer so updating to 8.1 would not help.
To remove your current non functioning mirror use urpmi.removemedia If it is any consolation my own updates are working perfectly. I am using the sunite.se server. Maybe it would work for you too? HTH derek On Wednesday 02 January 2002 16:58, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: > I have Mandrake 8.0 installed on a Dell Inspiron 2500. I run Mandrake > Update, and setup a security update site. As soon as I do that (and I've > reinstalled Mandrake just to check it) it starts filling the trees and > when it gets to the security site, it stops at 26% (every time) and > freezes. I have to kill the program. So now, basically, I can't update > my computer except by getting rpms and using kpackage. Anyone else had > this problem and any suggestions on how to fix it? And no, I can't get > Mandrake 8.1 to work on this computer, so don't suggest that. > > Thanks! > > Barbara
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