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.
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Fulko Hew wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@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.
rday
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