On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Benjamin Francom <bfrancom@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@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@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.


Okay, after fiddling with my proxy settings, it seems to have worked.