Actius Repaved
What a weekend. Not only did I relax a lot, and get in a great hike, but I did some repaving. A while back, I wrote about how my Actius would not boot from the CD-ROM drive that it came with. Turns out a call to tech support solved the problem–the CD-ROM drive that they shipped me does not play well with the Actius, so they cross-shipped me a new one. It took a lot longer than it should have, but I got it a few days ago, and that meant I could boot up all the operating systems CDs I wanted to to my heart’s content.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
There is a 1.44 M boot.bin file on the first restore disk. It can be written to a floppy disk and if you have a usb floppy drive, you can boot this floppy with the restore cd in a usb cdrom and get it to load the usb cd-rom driver and start the restore process. Took me alot of tiral and error to discover this. Sharp came so close to having a good restore system (why not run it from your desktop and install it to the hd via the usb access in the docking station?).
March 15th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I have a Sharp MM1110 notebook that has been left in the wardrobe as it’s hardrive is faulty. I would like to replace the HD with a solid state memory and run some sort of lightweight linux on it. Have you managed to do it? I have seen a post from you saying you were to install xubuntu in yours. I would appreciate if you could report any successful way of doing it.
Thanks,
Renato