adding memory to my laptop causes subsequent f9a installs to fail

[Fulko Hew]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   until now, i've test installed f9a several times on a gateway laptop
>  with 512M of RAM.  after adding another 1G of DDR 400 RAM, every
>  install attempt ends up hanging somewhere -- checking SW dependencies,
>  formatting the root filesystem, and the latest 300+ packages into the
>  install.
>
>   is there something about extra memory that f9a just doesn't like?

You may want to consider trying an install with only the 1G stick installed
replacing the existing 512M (if possible) instead of simply adding
the additional memory... and seeing what happens during an install.