[bitfolk] Failed Ubuntu 14.04 Install

Hi Andy. Thanks for the help, I do appreciate that Bitfolk is a service for real geeks and that support for installations is not part of the deal. Your support is one of the reasons why Bitfolk is special :) I watched the asciicast and what you did is pretty well what I did. The main difference was the partitioning. When I did the first and subsequent installs the partitions were already there and I just labelled and formatted them. You deleted everything and started from scratch. The other difference is that for the first and last attempts I took the LAMP and encryption options. These two installations both booted but with error messages and I was unable to ssh into them. It is running like that now. The installations without those options would not boot. I hate GrUB2 :) I always had the feeling that it was designed for and by enterprise users. On your screencast you were offered a grub boot menu. I did not see this on mine. I mentioned this above. I am happy to do another install deleting the partitions and doing exactly what you did. Yes. It is running. I will not touch it until you have given me the all clear. I am happy to give you my login details. I tried to ssh to the IP address and received an instant 'connection refused'. It did not respond to ping. The strange thing is that I just tried again, received a response to ping and to ssh: $ ssh zaphod(a)85.119.83.139 zaphod(a)85.119.83.139's password: Permission denied, please try again. I typed in the password very carefully three times and checked that the caps lock were not on. I did see the instructions but there was no block of text telling me the credentials. I suspect that it disappeared because I touched something but left the login prompt. I am not a screen user and it took me longer than it should to escape from the login prompt :( Once I did that I did succeed in logging in to the rescue environment. It did and it was confusing to someone who is not used to screen. I did control + a k to kill the session but it returned to the same login screen when I made a fresh connection. It was later that I found contol + ] that returned me to the Xen shell. Later I saw that on the initial screen it tells about control + ] but it was not visible when I needed it. Maybe a 'how to get out of here if your login fails' hint at the login screen? I guess the typical Bitfolk customer would not need that sort of help. Thanks again. Steve