adding memory to my laptop causes subsequent f9a installs to fail

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Feb 20 22:41:35 UTC 2008


On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Andrew Farris wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day 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?
>
> Just wondering, did you change the swap size that was being used
> relative to the physical memory size?  Or did the installs all end
> up with the same swap partition size?  Was it being auto configured
> for swap size?

i just took the default partitioning to keep things simple, so i
didn't do anything differently from the .5G to the 1.5G install.
also, that laptop had f9a on it initially, so i powered down, added
the memory and rebooted, and ran "free" to verify that it was all
visible, and it was.  and then i tried the first install.

i also ran "memtest" for several minutes with the 1.5G of RAM in, and
nothing untoward happened.  at the moment, i'm installing with just
the 512M of RAM, and it's proceeding nicely.  once the install
finishes, i'll power down, re-install the extra 1G, and see if
everything keeps running.

then, given time, i'll try a 1.5G install one more time, just in case
everything until now was just a cosmic fluke or something.

rday
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