adding memory to my laptop causes subsequent f9a installs to fail

[Horst H. von Brand]

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.

In my experience, random hangs/crashes are due to bad hardware (overheated
CPU, bad powersource, bad RAM). Start running memtest for a full round.
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