XPuser1
12-23-2006, 07:27 AM
Hi. I wanted to install Knoppix 5.0.1 onto a partition of my computer's hard drive, all in the English language. A kind helper has provided me with two, Knoppix-5.0.1 and one Knoppix-3.8.2 installation Compact Discs (CDs). The German-instead-of-English-language problem is with the two Knoppix-5.0.1 CDs, the second of which is marked as being an English-language download. I set my Hewlett-Packard, Pavilion, ZE1110 notebook computer to boot from each of the Knoppix CDs. For the vs.-3.8.2 CD at the screen which has "boot:" on it with the computer waiting for my reply to that, typing "knoppix lang=en" worked to load the Knoppix Live CD. But on the vs.-5.0.1 CD marked as an English-language download, after typing "knoppix lang=en," the command was not recognized by the CD or computer; also nothing happened after pressing the F2 or F3 keys; also simultaneously pressing the "ctrl," "alt," and F1 keys did not move me to any new, text-only screen; neither were the commands "debug" or "knoppix testcd" recognized by the computer or CD. And before I knew that the default booting for an English-language download was in the English language, I also tried "knoppix lang)us," also without any recognition by the computer or CD. (Based on the "Hint" in the so-called "cheatcodes" description on the vs.-5.0.1 CD, I mistakenly thought the keyboard in use at the time had a German layout in which the simultaneous pressing of the shift and zero keys on my computer's keyboard would have in such a case been equivalent to the equal character on a German keyboard layout.) A possible key to the problem with vs.-5.0.1 CD is the message on the screen containing "boot:" that read "unknown keyword in config file." The only command which did anything useful for me was simply pressing my keyboard's return key after "boot:" with the Knoppix-5.0.1 Live CD.
Afterwards I could install Knoppix 5.0.1, with either of the commands "sudo knoppix-installer" or "sudo knoppix-installer lang=en" in a terminal program, onto a partition of my computer's hard drive. This then became a Debian installation of Linux on that partition of my computer's hard drive into which I could later boot my computer. But the menus for both Konqueror (which doubles as both a Web browser and file manager) and QTParted were each in the German language when I wanted the English language. At least for Konqueror this behavior was the same for two different vs.-5.0.1 CDs. Again note: One of them was marked as an English-language download by the kind person who provided it for me. The problem could be partly solved for one of the vs.-5.0.1-CD, hard-drive loads by installing and perhaps running localepurge from the downloaded package localepurge_0.0.74.deb; I think I kept only one English-language locale. The result was an improvement in Konqueror with just a couple of headings in German on the main window of Konqueror; the rest of the text and menus in Konqueror were then in English. However, in QTParted the menus were still in the German language, as I recall.
The first three questions in this paragraph all relate to getting Knoppix-5.0.1 menus in Konqueror and/or QTParted in English. Is there any solution at all to getting the QTParted menus in English? Is there a solution for Konqueror which does not involve localepurge? If so, what is a solution or what are the solutions? Without a good solution which I have yet found, this is an imaginable work-around set of "solutions" for people who understand English, but not much German. I imagine installing Knoppix 3.8.2 as a Debian/GNU Linux operating system on a partition of a hard drive, which as I recall did not have this language problem.--I hope this will be good for working with QTParted in English. But for using some of the recent hardware-recognition features which may be provided by vs. 5.0.1, one could use vs. 5.0.1 and perform a localepurge, choosing to leave only an English-language locale.
Even when the QTParted menus were in the German language, I could still determine which menu item was to resize a partition, based on the size of it being reported right after selecting that menu item. It at first appeared as though I could reduce the size of my Windows-XP-loaded partition by some amount that way; but when afterwards trying to increase the size of another partition by that same amount, I found that the resize option was in gray letters so that I could not select it to attempt to make such an increase. Then after closing QTParted and then reopening it, I found that the size of the Windows-XP-loaded partition was the same as before I at least thought I had changed it; so the final result was no net change at all to any partition's size. Particularly with regard to the "graying" of the letters of the German equivalent of the English "resize," I thought this might have been an indication that QTParted was not working as it should, totally aside from the language problem I had. But another possibility is that I could be missing some things in the correct use of QTParted. Thanks in advance for anyone's helpful comments here.
Afterwards I could install Knoppix 5.0.1, with either of the commands "sudo knoppix-installer" or "sudo knoppix-installer lang=en" in a terminal program, onto a partition of my computer's hard drive. This then became a Debian installation of Linux on that partition of my computer's hard drive into which I could later boot my computer. But the menus for both Konqueror (which doubles as both a Web browser and file manager) and QTParted were each in the German language when I wanted the English language. At least for Konqueror this behavior was the same for two different vs.-5.0.1 CDs. Again note: One of them was marked as an English-language download by the kind person who provided it for me. The problem could be partly solved for one of the vs.-5.0.1-CD, hard-drive loads by installing and perhaps running localepurge from the downloaded package localepurge_0.0.74.deb; I think I kept only one English-language locale. The result was an improvement in Konqueror with just a couple of headings in German on the main window of Konqueror; the rest of the text and menus in Konqueror were then in English. However, in QTParted the menus were still in the German language, as I recall.
The first three questions in this paragraph all relate to getting Knoppix-5.0.1 menus in Konqueror and/or QTParted in English. Is there any solution at all to getting the QTParted menus in English? Is there a solution for Konqueror which does not involve localepurge? If so, what is a solution or what are the solutions? Without a good solution which I have yet found, this is an imaginable work-around set of "solutions" for people who understand English, but not much German. I imagine installing Knoppix 3.8.2 as a Debian/GNU Linux operating system on a partition of a hard drive, which as I recall did not have this language problem.--I hope this will be good for working with QTParted in English. But for using some of the recent hardware-recognition features which may be provided by vs. 5.0.1, one could use vs. 5.0.1 and perform a localepurge, choosing to leave only an English-language locale.
Even when the QTParted menus were in the German language, I could still determine which menu item was to resize a partition, based on the size of it being reported right after selecting that menu item. It at first appeared as though I could reduce the size of my Windows-XP-loaded partition by some amount that way; but when afterwards trying to increase the size of another partition by that same amount, I found that the resize option was in gray letters so that I could not select it to attempt to make such an increase. Then after closing QTParted and then reopening it, I found that the size of the Windows-XP-loaded partition was the same as before I at least thought I had changed it; so the final result was no net change at all to any partition's size. Particularly with regard to the "graying" of the letters of the German equivalent of the English "resize," I thought this might have been an indication that QTParted was not working as it should, totally aside from the language problem I had. But another possibility is that I could be missing some things in the correct use of QTParted. Thanks in advance for anyone's helpful comments here.