Lion wont install it says it needs 2gb of memory
When I try to install Lion on my iMac it says that Lion needs 2gb of memory. My HD had more than 2GB of memory available and therefore I dont understand why this error is occuring.
Any help in solving this would be greatly appreciated.
memory is different then space
you need more RAM
how much RAM do you have?
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