Sl-c3100 Factory Reset Problems Options

[Erawan]

I was hoping my first post here wasn't going to be along these lines, but it couldn't be helped, sorry

I recently got my hands on a 3100 which came preinstalled with Cacko 1.23. I wanted to start afresh so I attempted to do a factory reset according to the instructions in the FigLabs manual that came with it. Unfortunately there seems to be a serious error, as it just says 'grep: /var/lib/pcmcia/stab: No such file or directory' ad infinitum. Please tell me that this is not terminal and there is something I can do to correct this (other than sending it back to Sharp Japan). I still have all the original manuals and discs and hope that there's something on there that can help me, but my Japanese isn't so hot .

Your help would be most greatly appreciated, many thanks.

[Capn_Fish]

I've never done a factory reset on a Cxx00 model, but there's really no reason to unless you want the dictionaries or some distribution requires the disk to be partitioned just so.

If you're still bent on trying it, I'd try TriSoft's directions/files:

http://trisoft.de/en_c3100howto.htm

And just for your sanity, that error is far from terminal.

HTH