How to change language in console?
Having just acquired a Cappucino computer (very small footprint PC; no
floppy) and being unable to boot off my older Sid installer CD but being
able to boot off Knoppix, I have manually created partitions and copied
stuff from the Knoppix CD to the hard drive.
Of course, until I can get everything repaired, there's lots of
broken-ness, but that's okay; it's a great learning experience.
I'm now able to boot off the internal hard drive in single-user mode,
but when I do things such as "man interfaces", the text comes up in
German (I think). How do I change the language to American English? I
thought maybe it had something to do with locales, but I can't quite
wrap my head around how that works, and googling hasn't seemed to help
me any.
I did try running "locale-gen" (or something similar; can't recall
exactly now) which processed for about half an hour, and echoed a list
of what looked like language settings (like DE.ISO-8859-1). When it
finished, I then ran "localedef en_US.ISO-8559-1"; it hasn't returned me
to a command prompt nor has it echoed any information; it seems to just
be sitting there waiting. It's been this way for 30 minutes or so now.
Any clues as to the correct method of changing the language of the system?
Thanks!
Kent
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