Help! Mixed English and German?

[Jack_]

Installed 3.4 to the HD using sudo knoppix-installer,
after booting with knoppix lang=us from a EN iso.

Most of the install is English, kde menu etc, but apt-get is German and when it checked the HD during boot it was German as well, so is the desktop background.

Any suggestions?

[Jack_]

I tried to reinstall,
when I boot from the CD all is English,
but after the HD install apt-get, fsck, etc is German???

Anyway to change the lang of console programs?

[Jack_]

Found this from some time back, it worked.

The fix is easy as root edit (or if necessary make) the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and use your country's info, here is my US-english file:

LANG="en_US"
COUNTRY="US"
LANGUAGE="en"
CHARSET="iso8859-1"
XMODIFIERS=""

[Jack_]

Rebooted and all is German again...

The reboot seems to be rewriting the files in /etc/sysconfig .Files like knoppix, i18n all have DE references again.

Anyone?

[oscar]

edit /etc/lilo.conf
add a new ´cheatcode´

append= "lang=us

run
lilo -v

[Jack_]

Thanks Oscar!

I boot from floppy, how can I recreate the boot flooppy with the new lilo info?

[OErjan]

just put a floppy in the drive an do lilo -M /dev/floppy
if things do not work out post your lilo.conf here.

my guess is that lilo already is pointing to the floppy.

# LILO configuration file
# Start LILO global section
something
somethingelse
somethingelseagain
boot = /dev/fd0
things
morethings...

the boot= part is where t lilo is to be installed, on the simulated lilo.conf above that is floppy.

from man lilo.conf

 boot=<boot-device>
              Sets the name of the device (e.g. a hard disk  par-
              tition) that contains the boot sector. If this key-
              word is omitted, the boot sector is read from  (and
              possibly  written  to) the device that is currently
              mounted as root.  A raid installation is  initiated
              by  specifying  a  RAID1 device as the boot device;
              e.g., "boot=/dev/md0".  Note that LILO version 22.0
              and later operate differently from earlier versions
              with respect to the actual  location  of  the  boot
              records.

[gjhicks]

Hi,

I have same problem - english GUI and german terminal!

The alteration to lilo looks interesting but I am booting via the DOS program 'loadlin'. For example, to boot knoppix I use:

loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro

I don't think that 'boot' codes can be passed via 'loadlin' - but I could well be wrong!

Is there a way to change the terminal language in the configuration files?

Regards,

[gjhicks]

OK, so I am an idiot!

A quick google search gave the answer - on a knoppix.net forum! Weird though, although google found it here, the forum's search facility did not.

Anyway, in case another loadlin user is reading, the answer to my question (and a whole lot more) can be found here: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=22512

Bye for now!