length of time for first update after installing 6.10

[J. David Boyd]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> david at adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) wrote:
>> How long should the first update take after installing 6.10?
>> I installed last night, onto a 17G drive, with 256M of memory, and a broadband
>> cable connection.
>> The updater popped up, with a large amount of updates available.
>> I started it running, and it seemed as if it was sitting on the first one for
>> a very very long time.
> 
> Should take only a few seconds. It it hangs, most likely there is a
> network problem, maybe you are using a mirror that is faulty... I often
> have problems with mirrors, so now I always connect to the main Ubuntu
> servers in the UK. You can go to System->Administration->Software
> Properties, to select the server, then try again to run the
> update-manager.
> I see yo have only 256MB of RAM though, that's not much run Gnome, so
> maybe this is causing some weird kind of bug.
> But try simple things first, and switch to the main Ubuntu server.
> 
> 
> --
> Vince
> 

Well, gnome seems to run pretty well off of the CD.

Thanks for the info, I'll try picking a different server.

Dave