Kali 2.0 frustrations and successes

Well we all saw it happening, we watched it, we experienced it. The massive DDoS attack on the Kali Linux servers, along with the giant upgrade hug we all gave it. It was an eventful day. I saw people taking from 1 hr to 14 hours to download the 3.1 GB ISO. As of right now I have only been able to get the mini ISO to successfully install.
It is stalled out again. When I use the full ISO I get mount issues with using USB where it is looking for the the information under /cdrom instead of /media. Okay not a big deal
ln -s /media /cdrom
Oh wait it didn't like that either... Well I guess I could throw the ISO on there as well.
mount /media/kali2.iso /cdrom -o loop=/dev/loop1
waiting
waiting
waiting
well I guess that wont work in here... hmm
Back to the mini install. All of you are giving it the hug of death still 12 hours after release. I guess I can try a Debian mirror. Lets see if that works.
Decided on the usu.edu server.
That one failed, time to take a systematic approach... Or wait do I care to get this done today?
YES I DO!
Okay time to start at the top of the mirror list.
6 down so far all failing...
all seem to be failing at this point.
I'm going to crash I'll get it going tomorrow. We will see how servers are then.

I had a brain blast over the night. Seems that working tired caused me to slow down, after listening to my brain and sleeping I thought to just watch the mountings when it kept erroring out. It seems that it kept unmounting the /dev/sdb1 (flash drive) so every time it errored out I mounted it again. Did this 3 or 4 times throughout and it worked with out any other issues.