Updating Ubuntu

[Benjamin Francom]

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

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