joan wrote:When entering a password on *nix characters are not echoed so there'll be nothing to see.

Enter your password and then press the enter/return key. You should then be logged in.

Thanks joan - first lesson on pi os learnt! This is going to be an interesting journey!

kendavs

OK - just got my Pi - all connected up, great, boots up fine into Wheezy. Enter Pi for username and press enter to get to password - then nothing. The password field is not accepting ANY characters. Reboot loads of times. Left it to think about what it's done but still nothing is accepted into the p...