adding memory to my laptop causes subsequent f9a installs to fail

[Andrew Farris]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.

Yeah it might be helpful to try and see if the kernel dumps anything useful when 
the install fails with more ram, that seems like a nasty problem to have.

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