Updating Ubuntu

[Benjamin Francom]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very true.  It is ALWAYS that way for some days following a release.  In a
> week, the download part of an update will take 20 minutes.  If you download
> the .iso using a torrent even on release day it does not take long.  But
> when all the updaters are hitting the same servers, they are inundated.
>
> BTW, I believe if you download the alternate install .iso, you can actually
> upgrade from it though I would have to look up the details of how.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Chris Gehlker <canyonrat at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems to take forever. It is much quicker just to download the .iso
>> and install from scratch.
>>
>>
>
I downloaded the alt iso from a mirror (Univ. of Utah) yesterday, and had no
delays.  I Just finished a fresh install, and cannot apt-get update.   I
keep getting 404 errors regardless of which mirror I use.
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