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<DIV>Hi Barry</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for your help. Yes it is a desktop as I find them more flexible and
they last longer. Being retired I do not need portability</DIV>
<DIV>No it was not the Lubuntu problem as I checked the keys and they were
putting out what was on the label. I had used a special character , £, on
the first install but took this out subsequently when it did not appear on the
Mint virtual keyboard.</DIV>
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<DIV>On the boot loader I got caught on this about ten year ago with SUSE when I
used to come to the group so I know now the problem and try to avoid it. I had
not seen any way round this but if you have an article and its not too much
bother to locate it then it would be worth knowing about. </DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Alan</DIV>
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<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>Subject:</B> Re: [Durham] Help</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 26/04/16 17:11, A Pearson wrote:<BR>> Hello<BR>>
<BR>> Mint Cinnamon 17.3 64 bit from LXF 207 Feb 16<BR>> <BR>>
Its been a long time since I came to the group as most of the talk was<BR>>
way above my head and I use desktops not laptops as they are easier to<BR>>
modify so that was another reason.<BR>> I hope I have got the posting right
as its many years since last time.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
Installed Mint OK but it will not recognise password or username which
I<BR>> had installed a few minutes earlier.<BR>> Typing them in
correctly with correct case several times just gave the<BR>>
message that either wrong names had been entered or the case was
wrong.<BR>> <BR>> I have re installed four times now booting on to
a clean HDD and no<BR>> mistake has been made. During install I went
through the process of<BR>> getting Mint to identify the keyboard
which is a Microsoft business<BR>> model of British format.<BR>>
<BR>> It is on its own drive dual booted from the BIOS for either the Linux
or<BR>> Win 7 drives. I do not use the Grub bootloaders etc as
experience shows<BR>> that if you remove Linux you lose access to Windows
and have to start<BR>> all over again.<BR>> I am quite proficient
with windows PC's but relatively new with Linux<BR>> having tried a couple
of distros in the last ten years but now wish to<BR>> make a determined
effort with Mint.<BR>> .<BR>> Hope you can advise so I can move
on. Found nothing definite on Google<BR>> which was mainly people
losing their passwords which is not this case.<BR>> Thanks in anticipation
that you may be able to help me with something<BR>> not too
complicated.<BR>> <BR>> Regards<BR>> Alan.<BR>> <BR>>
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<A href="http://www.nelug.org.uk/">http://www.nelug.org.uk/</A><BR>> <BR>Hi
Alan,<BR><BR>Is this problem with a desktop machine?<BR><BR>This can also be a
problem with Lubuntu as well, so Mint may have<BR>accidentally picked up the
same bug.<BR><BR>With Lubuntu's bug you can select any language at
installation but on<BR>first boot the newly installed system always reverts to
a US keyboard<BR>layout. Therefore if you used any of the special characters
when setting<BR>your password during installation, you may find that you
are<BR>accidentally typing different characters during your first log-in
attempt.<BR>Jonathan's suggestion is a good one as it will get around this
potential<BR>bug. When you manage to log-in you can then check what the
keyboard is<BR>actually doing by trying each special character key in a Writer
document.<BR><BR>Also using GRUB for dual booting shouldn't cause that big a
problem. I'm<BR>sure that I have seen articles where users have rejected a
dual boot<BR>installation, removed the Linux partition, and got the Windows
boot<BR>loader working again without having to completely re-install the
Windows<BR>OS. I think that the Windows install disc has a repair facility
which<BR>will do this. I don't use Windows myself but I will try and find
an<BR>article for you if you
want?<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Barry<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Durham
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