Comment # 3 on bug 1093791 from Stefan Hundhammer

Hm - very weird.

It does indeed seem to run out of memory, but only after 865 packages have been
installed successfully.

I am not so sure about your suspicion that it has anything to do with picking
the wrong partition to install on first; it runs successfully for quite a while
until it runs out of memory.

But then, that machine appears to have only on 1 GB of RAM; depending on
installation mode, this might already be on the verge of insufficient RAM.