John Seago wrote:

It also seems to want to log me on with a GUI and does'nt give me time to

log on

to the command line and then startx.

To solve this, type update-rc.d -f xdm remove

it does'nt seem to like what I have said about my mouse,

Sometimes your xf86config can be looking for /dev/mouse, which is normally a link to /dev/psaux for a ps2 mouse. ls -l /dev/mouse will show you.

Typing aptget or apt get seems to have the result of confusing the poor thing, both sides of the keyboard!

Did you do apt-get install mc ? Jen