@stormi It was the time. It was not just a bit off, it was 12 years off

Should have thought of that, we had similar issues at work with Rocky 8 servers. I naively thought the NTP servers would have prevented such issues, but I am not sure the NIC works at install time. I have never been able to get the netinstall to work off that box. Meh... this worked, thanks you very much!