Fresh Lion fails to install

I've just tried a Lion install on to a new disk after booting the installer from USB. The install process gets most of the way through then tries to download something from the net and fails. I've tried wired and wifi and confirmed from the network app and terminal that I've got a full connection.
Odd thing, the network app that comes with the installer shows full connection except the lookup tab, that fails. All the other tabs and terminal can do DNS resolution so DNS isn't broken.
Anyone else seen this? At the moment it is a show stopper as I can't get the install to run all the way through.

Apple not supports installing Lion from selfmade usb's. Because nobody knows what tool you used to create it, and if files are missing on the stick.
Also the permissions for the files need to be set correct, else the installer cannot read its content.
Normally you boot from such a stick and the install process is just very similar to the one of Snow, ie. use disk utility to erase disk ( Notice : for Lion the partition scheme needs to be A GUID/GPT , not MBR , the created partition must be Mac OS Journaled or "HFS plus" ), then point the installer to the newly created harddisk and thats all. After install it reboots and you are set : The welcome wizard / Migration Assistant starts.
Have you 2GB of Ram ? Below that the Installer fails.

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