A friend gave me a copy of KNOPPIX_3.4-2004-05-17-DE.iso. The md5sum for this checks out OK.

Of course the language for this will be German by default, so before considering burning a CD I went to

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/knoppix/index.html

and got knoppixlang.zip. I also installed Python 2.3 on my Win2000Pro pc. I put the abovementioned Knoppix.iso, the unzipped knoppixlang.py etc files & Python 2.3 all in the same folder on a FAT32 drive.

So I open the python GUI console and enter the line suggested by the knoppixlang webpage:
knoppixlang.py --lang=us KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-DE.iso
and i get ----SYNTAX ERROR!!!

Variants like (eg) >>>python knoppixlang.py --lang=us KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-DE.iso, or
knoppixlang.py --lang=en KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-DE.iso

give other syntax errors. Also, using the python command line instead yields the same non-results.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a bug in this script? Can I change the default language of my iso to english some other way (as opposed to having to manually type it in every time I boot?)

Thanks for any help - I have a slow connection and can't realistically download the en iso.