On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, malcolm northcott wrote: > I think there is a deeper issue here. I just downloaded FC3 from bit- > torrent. Initial download happened overnight, install took about half an > hour, applying all the updates took several attempts over about 48 > hours. I suppose I could have streamlined this by snarfing > all the updates by FTP rather than using up2date, but I didnt. This > problem only gets worse as the number of updates piles up. > The obvious solution would be to produce updated installation > iso's every couple of months. I can understand the lack of motivation > for anyone to actually do this..... Or use a more sane 'mirrorlist' instead of the default - which could take you to the opposite end of the globe.. Satish
