Can you make a "own" USB boot thumb with your own language ?

[Vilsen]

Can you make a "own" USB boot thumb with
YOUR OWN SELECTED LANGUAGE so that you can WORK with a computer (which you have problems with) in your own language?!?!

I often suffer from the fact that it becomes very cumbersome to try to write and edit files and so when you have the wrong keyboard setting and _:; -., / () =? \}] [{Ends up wrong and
some signs are not present.

[mikeflan]

Sure thing. Not a problem:
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=287353

[Jo-con-Ël]

You don't say how you created that USB drive, nor if its a Linux Live USB drive, and neither the ISO or distro you wrote on it.

In case of Linux Mint Live USB (not full installed to USB as proposed by mikeflan), it will depend on the tool you used when creating that Live USB.

1)If you have used USB image writer Mint's tool there is no F4, F6 or whatever FX option to set Language or keyboard layout as there were before and still are present in other distros. You can do as follows every time you boot

a)Edit default boot option in Linux Live GRUB menu and add your language and keyboard layout parameters in linux line exact place as indicate below (see point #3) replacing es and es_ES with yours.

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locale=es_ES bootkbd=es console-setup/layoutcode=es console-setup/variantcode=

I don't know, if it is possible, how to change grub keyboard layout (English by default) on editing GRUB entries to make it easy at this point (on installed systems it can be, not easily, done).

b)Also you can let it boot as normal (w/o editing) and once in Live session, you can add you keyboard layout (Menu>Preferences>Keyboard>Layouts) click on add (+) icon downside[/i] and choose you keyboard distribution.

You can remove the English default one. If you leave it installed, notice a flag will appear on panel. Be sure you choose the one you have added there.

Even can install your own Language (Menu>Preferences>Language>Add/remove...) but will need to log-out and log-in again.

2)With other tools as mentioned in pbear's you will be able to edit GRUB menu config. file and make that changes permanent in default entry (no need persistence for this) or create Linux Live with persistence in order to keep those change on Live session.

Tips & Options
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Persistence distinguished. To be clear, the procedures described above create a full install system which works the same as one installed the regular way to an internal hard drive. Persistence is something else, useful in some cases but not as complete, stable or updatable. It only became a “thing” because USB storage used to be limited in size and expensive. IMHO, persistence is now mostly obsolete. If that’s what you want, I’d recommend Pendrive’s UUI, sudodus’ mkUSB (about) (more), or MultiSystem (about). Laurent85 has a tutorial using only standard Mint tools plus rEFInd, though it’s a bit advanced. Do not use the widely touted LinuxLive USB Creator; was last updated in Sept 2015, last worked with Mint 17.2, and has since been abandoned by its developer (see 2/3’s down page). I’ve also had trouble with YUMI (Pendrive’s multiboot app), UNetBootin and MultiBootUSB, but YMMV.

3)You can use Multisystem that make all for you by default w/o persistence. It is very slooowwwww ( i.e. it takes too long on every step when creating Live USB), but when it is done Live USB will show boot menu in your Language and Live session is in your Language with your keyboard layout.

This is the way linux line looks on Multisystem grub menu entries in order to write those paramenters (in red) on the exact place when editing as per point #1a

linux /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/linuxmint.seed boot=casper locale=es_ES bootkbd=es console-setup/layoutcode=es console-setup/variantcode= iso-scan/filename=${iso_path} quiet splash --
initrd /casper/initrd.lz