Help! Having reinstall issues

I have a 2011 iMac that I purchased in May and was trying to sell it. I have a buyer and I went to restore the computer; I looked it up on the internet and it seemed to be pretty easy to do (this is something I have done with PCs a lot and wasn't an issue). So I put in the install disk held the "c" key down and it booted from the disk. Once here I formatted my hard drive to Mac extended (journaled), the default which is what I found needed to be done. After that I continued to install OS X Snow Leopard; the install screen would tell me it takes about 35 minutes. The install would get about 5 minutes in and say installation failed due to inability to copy necessary install files. I tried this multiple times and even had a friend bring his iMac restore disk in the event mine was bad; his failed also. Does anyone have any advice on how to get this Mac running again? It seems like this shouldn't be that big of a problem, but I would appreciate any help..
Thanks!

Found an answer, I had upgraded my RAM to 12 Gb (two 4Gbs) from the factory 2x 2Gb sticks. I took out my 2x 4Gb and it is installing fine now!!
Thanks to this discussion post
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10110203#10110203

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