Dear knp:

d- You seem to be a junior member. So I suppose you are not the
person evocated in point 1-b (to w.p.schulz).?
Yap, I am the new finish in town indeed and have been using Linux for just a few months. Under the circumstance of being unable to precisely understand the question quoted above since English is not my mother tongue, I am 110% sure that the post #12 was written by me, and have no slightest clue regarding the matter of point 1-b.

b- I do not plan to study any topics in large details. I need only
"simple" things.
From your post #1 and #8, I inferred that the topic was centralised around how to avoid typing certain cheat codes repetitively at every boot time and how to accomplish this particular task without overwriting the existing MBR and thus the boot loaders of any storage devices. In spite of the words, usb_hdd_knoppix_installed and ISO/IMG file, being mentioned in the post #1 and #8, respectively, I was unable to grasp whether the Knoppix was installed as a compressed file (/mnt-system/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX ; by default) or an uncompressed Debian-like system and whether Syslinux or GRUB legacy was installed as the bootloader on the USB hard disc. I, therefore, posted two links from Knoppix's wiki with a view to resolving the combination of compressed file and either of the bootloaders. At first glance, the titles of the sections which the links pointed to appeared to be irrelevant to the topic. I, however, assured that the content concisely described the means of setting the argument of lang=fr statically via the configuration file of the bootloader; from the sentence: "To boot this poor man's install..." onwards in the case of GRUB legacy.

From the post #5, #6 and #8, I assume the setup of your computer probably consists of 2 hard drives, one internal and one external discs; the internal hard drive contains (not exclusively) a Windows XP partition and a SOS_Knoppix partition (Knoppix V5.x), and the external drive also has a knoppix partition (Knoppix V7.4.2). In the case of Knoppix being installed in the fashion of compressed file on both hard drives, the cheat code, namely fromhd, may also need to be included when Knoppix V7.4.2 is preferred to be booted. Thus, the compressed file matched with the minirt.gz file can be found and loaded.

For the combination of uncompressed Debian-like system and either of the bootloaders, the files, namely /etc/sysconfig/i18n and /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, may be the key files regarding the settings of language and keyboard layout.


Regards,