Hi OE - Just a quick post.

Alot to assimilate to your previous post/s.

Never heard of Slitz or Gnumeric, will have a butchers - Wonder why the Debian Install is failing, we are the other-way round, my hardware [On new Mobo has probing problems] whereas you are squeezing into a pint pot.

Odd on the time/date format and strftime [yet again will have a look].

The thing I like about my present set-up is on VBox, can take snapshots and use Macrium for a complete and quick image to 2nd drive for everything. Never checked for equivalent in Linux as yet, also would be a massive change, unless I use a new Disk. I could disable in Bios but that's a lot of messing about.

On the group change, as far as I remember I used to use chgrp - not sure on Linux - although that might have been a script, also you have to be careful of 'shadow' files as in/for the password file. It's a long while ago...

Got to go...

Oxie...