[arch] 0.8 Voodoo ISOs finally released!

[Dan McGee]

On 4/1/07, Michael M. <mcubed at slashmail.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I had a problem afterwards.  I installed 'gnome' and it
> went *very* slowly.  It took hours to download all the packages.  I'm
> guessing the mirrors are being hit hard by the new release.  I didn't
> change any of the defaults in pacman.conf.  I remember seeing a message
> not long ago, here or from the Planet Arch RSS feed, about too many
> users using a particular mirror or something, so I didn't want to monkey
> around with anything and mess things up further.  Anyway, I went to bed
> so I haven't really done much with Arch yet except get it installed,
> which is a good enough accomplishment for one day anyway.  I'll try
> again later on and see if things improve.  I don't have time right now
> to play around with it.

Your mistake was not changing the mirror list. ftp.archlinux.org is
currently throttled, leading to the slowness of your downloads. You
may want to try moving another mirror to the top and searching again,
or using the "rankmirrors" script (search the forums for references).

-Dan