Install help on Toshiba Satellite a105-s4284

New SSD installed. 4gb of ram. Older system but has specs to install Zorin OS. Running Rufus to install OS with DD get error message “usb 1-6: device description read/8, error -110” then when I ran Rufus to install via ISO I would get to the end of the install and it would fail saying my CD Rom was dirty. What is going on?

I personally have not used Rufus to install. But I have had several issues from non clean drives:

First I would suggest verifying the ISO file doesn't have any errors, you can do this with different checksum options that are available.
normally this can be done with either sha1sum or md5sum, this can take awhile sometimes, be ready to wait.

Code:

user@Zorin-PC:~/Downloads$ md5sum Zorin-OS-12.3-Core-64.iso
ea4302fb2273bf7efd69a3710ae06556  Zorin-OS-12.3-Core-64.iso
user@Zorin-PC:~/Downloads$  sha1sum Zorin-OS-12.3-Core-64.iso
73072597c4bd0d6bc65fdc37ca6fc26ba02bdfc4  Zorin-OS-12.3-Core-64.iso


You will need to take the string of characters before the filename (the checksum) and compare it to what is posted on the site. Which version are you installing?

If the checksums match, then I would try the following:

Try to unchecking the "quick format" option,
Try installing with another tool like UNetBootin ?

Hi, take a look at this thread:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/705542/ ... r-read-all