installation hangs

[pauln60]

Hi all,

I'm trying to install 8.10 - the installation gets to the colourful
splash page, seems to be lots of activity on the CDROM which slowly
dies out over many minutes, and the process then simply hangs. Not
much to go on - any ideas for debugging this?

Thanks in advance,
P.N.

[snowpine]

Hi Paul,
Can you tell us your system specs? What you describe sounds like the system running out of memory--384mb of ram is recommended for the live cd. It could also be a video driver problem.

There is also an alternate install cd that is worth a try, it often succeeds where the live cd install fails...