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Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> 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.
> 
I'm sorry, I meant network install.

> 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.
> 
Do they have a high latency connection to snapshots?  I think you're 
absolutely correct, just because a user doesn't have a low latency 
connection doesn't mean a network install shouldn't work for them.

Regardless of the cause, how can the error be traced?  I will try a 
network install of 5.0-RELEASE from another high latency source.

Pete...