On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Benjamin Francom wrote: > 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. > > Okay, after fiddling with my proxy settings, it seems to have worked.