cancel Upgrade from Fedora 7 to 8

[ibarnon]

Hi,

I did an rpm command to upgrade to fedora 8. But when I do the yum -y install, I get the error for could not retrieve mirror list.

#> rpm -Uvh fedora-release-8.3-noarch.rpm fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm
#> yum -y update
could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.secureserver.net/download/mirrors/fedora-core-8
error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found

First: Is there any way I can point to another mirror? How can I do this?

Second: If I decide to just cancel this upgrade, what should I do? Everytime I execute yum update, I get this error.

Kindly please help. I've been stuck on this for more than a day now. Thanks.

[JEO]

Your fedora-release that you updated to seems old. Try downloading fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm and do another
rpm -Uvh fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm

and see if that fixes it.