adding memory to my laptop causes subsequent f9a installs to fail

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, cornel panceac wrote:

> 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.
>
> 2008/2/21, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Fulko Hew wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.

curiously, this second attempt at an install worked just fine.  i
think i'll stress test it once more just for another data point.

rday
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