On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Dazed_75 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 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.