as somebody said above, you may wanna try to use only one type of ram, like only the newer. also, you may test your ram with memtest. <div>2008/2/21, Robert P. J. Day <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Fulko Hew wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Robert P. J. Day <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>> 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry: Have classroom, will lecture. <a href="http://crashcourse.ca">http://crashcourse.ca</a> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com">fedora-test-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Linux counter #213090