I have an old "GERICOM Phantom XXL 3180" laptop and it has half a gig of ram, about 80GB of storage and an old AMD Sempron prosessor ("ATI Radeon Express 200m, up to 128 MB PCI Express")
It had Windows XP on it, but I wanted to put Zorin OS Lite on it, just to get a supported system and to make it faster. (I also tried "Xubuntu and Lubuntu, but I got the same problem)
Every thing semes to be working perfectly, till it has got to the end where it just says "The ext4 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed"
The Laptop doesn't support USB booting, but I tried using "PLoP" to boot from USB, witch worked great and was much faster, but instead of showing this error, it just crashed.
I tried deleting all partitions with GParted and letting the OS create the file system, but I still got this message
The burned DVD has a working iso burned on it. I know that because I let Zorin check it.
Another thing that was happening (I don't think it has to do with my problem though) is that I couldn't connect to the internet.. it would just say "Disconnected: You are now offline" and not connect.
The Laptop doesn't support USB booting, but I tried using "PLoP" to boot from USB, witch worked great and was much faster, but instead of showing this error, it just crashed.
It should support up to 2gb of ram if you can find sticks for it.
I tries installing Lubuntu with a USB stick using PLoP and the laptop didn't crash... It still showed me the errir though, but it was a little different... This time I made the partitions my self (root, swap and /home) and it didn't give me the error because it couldn't create the filesystem on root but on /home... so Partition #3