adding memory to my laptop causes subsequent f9a installs to fail

[Robert P. J. Day]

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?  Did the install
> still warn that the swap was going to be formatted early in the install
> process (it probably did warn of that with just 512Mb, just after the
> partition setup rather than after the package selection)?

well, ripping out that extra gig allowed me to do a successful
install.  how odd. should i try again with the 1.5G of RAM?  and if it
hangs again, i can always switch back to a virtual console and see if
i can find something informative.

rday

p.s.  after installing with just the .5G of RAM, i powered down, put
the extra gig back in, rebooted, and "free" seems to see it just fine.
so it's just the install that doesn't like it.  weird.

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