When booting from CD, the default keyboard and locale is for US English.
There is limited support for specifying a different keyboard and locale at boot by providing a two character code, which is usually, but not always, a country code.
For example the command for a default boot with French keyboard is:
linux fr
The following keyboard codes are explicitly supported.
| country-language | code | keyboard | locale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | be | be-latin1 | default |
| Finland-Finnish | fi | fi-latin1 | fi_FI@euro |
| France-French | fr | fr | fr_FR@euro |
| Germany-German | de | de | de_DE@euro |
| Hungary-Hungarian | hu | hu | hu_HU |
| Italy-Italian | it | it | it_IT@euro |
| Netherlands-Dutch | nl | nl | nl_NL@euro |
| Norway-Norwegian | no | no | no_NO |
| Spain-Spanish | es | es | es_ES@euro |
| Turkey-Turkish | tr | trf | tr_TR |
| United Kingdom-English | uk | uk | en_GB |
| United States-English | us | us | en_US |