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

dual booting on the laptop

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"

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

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 

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.

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

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

Well, I managed to do it again, made a mess of it as usual so i now have to start by installing mx21 again as the vsido 2019 does just the same as the old one. For some reason or other it won't  intall just keeps comming up with error failed to install or a similar message. Back to the drawing board 

Hi VastOne,
Thanks for that and I'm glad that you managed to sort the problem out.
I've  just downloaded the fsa file without any problem and I also download the 2019 iso again which I'm just about to burn onto a dvd.
hopefully I won't screw it up 
Cheers Gordon