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<DIV>Hi Jonathon</DIV>
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<DIV>In my reply to Barry I may have forgotten to tell him I now have it
working so I hope he reads this.</DIV>
<DIV>After many frustrated attempts I took your advice and used a simple single
case password although it was against my security instincts and it is now
working from yet another install.</DIV>
<DIV>I had checked out that the keyboard was outputting correctly and that I
made no mistakes with case. So I cannot pinpoint a definate cause but it now
works with auto logon selected as someone suggested. Another security
weakness I suppose.</DIV>
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<DIV>I had taken what it said on the label that the LXF disk was ready
to run and clicked the install from the live distro there.</DIV>
<DIV>However I since wondered if this was correct as years ago one had
to burn iso's on those discs to images. I wondered if I had done right so I
burnt an image from the ISO and used this for a new install </DIV>
<DIV>I had earlier tried Ctr_Alt_ F2 and also using F1. This
allowed Username entry in a text screen but not Password as characters did
not show. So no go.The other things I tried were using the shift key at
boot to try and access Grub but all I got was a blank screen so that was no way
to access and change passwords. Obviously these comments are
abreviated.</DIV>
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<DIV>So this is a potted history but it is now working together with a KVM
switch to my main internet computer.</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks to all who took time to help.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Alan</DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jon@whiteheat.org.uk href="mailto:jon@whiteheat.org.uk">Jonathan
Gowar</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=durham@mailman.lug.org.uk
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 27, 2016 10:45
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Durham] Help</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 2016-04-26 19:51, A Pearson wrote:<BR>> Jonathon<BR>>
<BR>> Thanks for the prompt reply so far.<BR>> It does not seem to be
the boot that's the problem as It opens up as<BR>> far as the scenic
pictures that form the Mint desktop. Its just when I<BR>> try to log on in
the boxes after that when the User Name and Password<BR>> are rejected so
we are not far off actually running. I should have<BR>> said that I do not
suspect the keyboard as the same happened using the<BR>> on screen virtual
keyboard with the mouse so its not a key change<BR>> problem. Password
comprises upper and lower case and numerals for<BR>> strength<BR><BR>My
suggestion is to reset (or reinstall Mint, and set) the password to
<BR>something simple "fish" for example, and the previous email is the
<BR>method I'd use. If you go that route and get stuck, give us a
shout.<BR><BR>As for my boot loader suggestions, that was to get Grub working,
it's <BR>just my preference, so ignore it at your
leisure:)<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Jon<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Durham
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