On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Fulko Hew wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
as a progress report, i returned the "A-data" brand DDR memory i had
earlier, and got a more expensive "corsair" brand chip -- still 1G
DDR1. popped that in, tried an install of f9a (x86_64) on my gateway
laptop, but it still hung (although it did at least get into the
package installation phase, which is further than i got with the
earlier memory most of the time.)
so i'm trying the same thing a second time to see if that's
reproducible. if this continues to fail, i guess i can try the most
expensive "kingston" brand, but i'm starting to think it's not the
quality of the memory -- there has to be something else happening
here.
and i'm open to any debugging advice.
rday
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