Quote Originally Posted by plener
cannot i repeat read German

all kmenu items are in German!

i need someone to walk me thru this
etc/lilo.conf has no statement related to any language
knoppix 3.4 on hard disk
Boot Knoppix on CD

Mount your knoppix HD partition read/write.
In a terminal do:
type 'su' to become root
type 'mount -rw /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5'
type 'kate' to open kate file editor as root

Open the file /mnt/hda5/etc/lilo.conf

Edit the lines 'append=' in the 'image=' section of lilo.conf to add 'lang=us'
Code:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26
 label="Knoppix24"
 root=/dev/hda5
 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.26
 append="lang=us apm=power-off ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init nomce quiet nofstab wheelmouse"
 read-only
Save the file.

Reboot into Knoppix on HD. You will still be in German but immediately open a terminal and type 'sudo lilo' to run lilo to implement your changes.

Reboot. You should now be in English.