Quote Originally Posted by tathraman
The cursor will be sitting there blinking at the bottom of the screen next to the word boot:, simply type knoppix lang=us and press the Enter/Return key and you change the keyboard/language to US english.
This works!
David
Glad to hear you got it working. Can you post the URL of the forum where you found help?

BTW, what you did is known as using a "cheatcode." For a list of them have a look at the Cheatcodes documentation. For example, another cheatcode you may wish to try is dma, which turns on Direct Memory Access (DMA) for harddisks and CDs. By default DMA is turned off because on some buggy systems it does not work too well. But on those systems where it does work, DMA can speed up disk read/write performance by a factor of 10 or more. Give it a shot with this:

boot: knoppix dma lang=us

Good luck and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert
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