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peter> Are you able to do a floppy install?

It seems that boot media doesn't matter for this, floppy boot then
install can be failed if distribution itself comes from the network.

peter> The latency from Minnesota to Japan might be too high you
peter> think?

Maybe, but I doubt it *is* the root of this problem, since some of
users in Japan also hit this problem.

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Makoto `MAR' Matsushita