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#1
General Support / Re: Trying to return
Last post by Gordon - March 28, 2024, 02:57:42 PM
Hi PackRat.

Thanks for that. I've managed to do it after several attempts but all is well now. I've even managed to change my root password to the correct on now as well.

 big thanks to VastOne and PackRat for all their time an help

Cheers Gordon
#2
General Support / Re: Trying to return
Last post by PackRat - March 28, 2024, 01:25:27 PM
Quote from: Gordon on March 28, 2024, 12:39:57 PMHi VastOne,

Sorry it's been a while but not been around.
I typed in what you said and got the results that you said i would get. the problem is that that is a US keyboard layout not a UK keyboard layout. anyway  now going to search and try to find out how to change the keyboard layout. My keyboard is a Microsoft wireless comfort keyboard 5000 so here goes

Cheers Gordon

As root:

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
First screen is a list of keyboards - Generic 105-key PC is most likely selected. This list is what Debian detects as attached. (correlates to XKBMODEL="pc105")

Select OK, the next screen is the configured layout; English US is default. Scroll down and select "Other"
The available layouts list comes up. English (UK) will be available (or whatever language you need).

Once you make your selection and return to the console, restart the keyboard service (as root):

service keyboard-setup restart
You should have, a English (UK) keyboard setup. If not, you may need to reboot.

Debian Wiki Keyboard
#3
General Support / Re: Trying to return
Last post by Gordon - March 28, 2024, 12:39:57 PM
Hi VastOne,

Sorry it's been a while but not been around.
I typed in what you said and got the results that you said i would get. the problem is that that is a US keyboard layout not a UK keyboard layout. anyway  now going to search and try to find out how to change the keyboard layout. My keyboard is a Microsoft wireless comfort keyboard 5000 so here goes

Cheers Gordon
#4
Artwork & Screenshots / Re: 2021 - Perpetuity Screensh...
Last post by PackRat - March 19, 2024, 11:38:25 PM


dual booting on the laptop
#5
General Support / Re: Trying to return
Last post by VastOne - March 19, 2024, 08:35:31 PM
Standard English keyboard layout is what is the default

You can also run the following from terminal to show you the layout

cat /etc/default/keyboard
It should show you the following

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS=""

BACKSPACE="guess"
#6
Artwork & Screenshots / Re: 2021 - Perpetuity Screensh...
Last post by dizzie - March 19, 2024, 07:58:39 PM
So... Gentoo with i3, cause why not!

This was fun to play with again. 
Gentoo I mean, this time no conky was hurt in the progress :P

#7
General Support / Re: Trying to return [ SOLV...
Last post by Gordon - March 19, 2024, 06:37:31 PM
Hi VastOne,
YIPEE.
I'm at last on VSIDO again. It appears that I was only doing one thing wrong with adduser and that was that I was logged in as root and using sudo as well. I dropped sudo and all is well.
Thanks for all your help.
Got another problem now, how do I change the keyboard layout as I have no idea which layout it is using and that going to cause me problems with all my passwords, it's probable the reason that I can't  log on to the  website on my computer.
Cheers Gordon  :)
#8
General Support / Re: Trying to return
Last post by VastOne - March 18, 2024, 12:45:27 AM
Quote from: Gordon on March 16, 2024, 03:05:04 PMHi Vastone.
I've installed VSIDO now using the fsarchiver but now I have other problems.
It won't  use "sudo adduser" keeps comming up with "Please enter a username matching the regular expression configued via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the --allow-bad-names option etc" no idea what it mene or what to do.
I also can't sign into vsido even though i'm logged in on my tablet
Cheers Gordon

On this page there are several solutions to what is happening. In short you are using an invalid character that can be used if you use the allow-bad-names variable. That link will explain it in more detail.
#9
General Support / Re: Trying to return
Last post by Gordon - March 16, 2024, 03:05:04 PM
Hi Vastone.
I've installed VSIDO now using the fsarchiver but now I have other problems.
It won't  use "sudo adduser" keeps comming up with "Please enter a username matching the regular expression configued via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the --allow-bad-names option etc" no idea what it mene or what to do.
I also can't sign into vsido even though i'm logged in on my tablet
Cheers Gordon
#10
General Support / Re: Trying to return
Last post by VastOne - March 15, 2024, 01:35:41 PM
Gordon, I know that they are broken and will not install properly because the installation tool is broken and cannot be fixed. The 2019 ISO's are kept around to be used as a USB boot device with the tools necessary to troubleshoot a system AND to use in installing the preferred VSIDO install method with the fsarchver versions.

As stated before, if you already have a linux distro installed and I believe you said you had MX, you don't need the 2019 bootable disks as long as you can download fsarchiver. There is also a detailed How To here that takes you through multiple ways to successfully install VSIDO

Is this a perfect method for Linux? No, but it is a working method for VSIDO which has had to deal with 4 different installation methods die out for lack of support over the 12 years we have been doing this. There's plenty of help here to get you going with the fsarchver version