Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-23 Thread Gilles
At 15:23 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote: How about kernel upgrades (as in 2.6.35-22-generic from 2.6.35-21-generic), does that keep that too? If not, how to endure it does or at least how to make sure the new kernel boots up the next time? Apparently, the kernel (vmlinuz + possibly initrd.(lz/gz))

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-23 Thread Gilles
At 15:46 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote: Hopefully there is no need to do a update-initramfs -u, but I'll watch out for it. What does update-initramfs -u? Wonderful, you gave me an idea. I'll have to give it a try next time. - My Lubuntu is a 'real install' on a usb stick, but I am not

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-23 Thread Gilles
At 16:30 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote: But just to add or elaborate, what I did was to install Lubuntu like to a hard disk but it is to a usb stick instead. That's the whole explanation. The advantages are that, of course, there is no need for persistent or casper-rw, and things should process

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-22 Thread Gilles
At 04:04 21/09/2010, Quynh Vu Do wrote: You should ensure that French language has been installed : Go to the Menu System Administration and Language Support, then click on Remove/Install language and verify that French is installed. If not install it. Thanks for the tip, but I'm running

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-22 Thread Gilles
At 16:56 22/09/2010, Quynh Vu Do wrote: I am not sure for the file to be modified and I'm not sure you can do it for a live USB, only if your USB key has been installed with Lubuntu, as in a live USB, the file system is a special file that can't be modified (like if it were on a CD). If you

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-22 Thread Gilles
At 18:45 22/09/2010, Gilles wrote: For those interested, you just need to update the following file in the USB key once Lubuntu has been installed one it (using PenDrive Universal Installer, in this case): \\USBKey\syslinux\text.cfg default live label live menu label ^Run Lubuntu from

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-22 Thread Gilles
At 23:21 22/09/2010, Leszek Lesner wrote: Here are commands summed up. 1. DD (2GB Persistency Image): dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/your_path_to_usbstick/casper-rw bs=1024 count=2000 2. Format the persistent image mkfs.ext2 /media/your_path_to_usbstick/casper-rw 3. Add persistent to your

[Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-20 Thread Gilles
Hello I'm looking for a small Linux distribution that I can use as basis to add a few applications and device drivers before dumping the whole thing into an ISO and burn USB keys. The top-item in the check-list is whether the distro supports Europen languages in addition to English. Does

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] UI in French?

2010-09-20 Thread Gilles
At 15:08 20/09/2010, Yorvyk wrote: Lubuntu, like all variations of Ubuntu/Debian, can support any written language on the planet and at least one not from earth, Klingon :) How complete the translations are varies, but, French appears to be quite complete. Thanks guys for the confirmation.