RMprepUSB is quite a powerful utility and offers a range of option In this example we're just creating a bootable FAT32 formatted pendrive using SYSLINUX as the boot loader.
At the time of writing I am using:
When you start up RMprepUSB you find it offers a number of options. As far as we're concerned we want to install an iso file (TinyCore5.0.iso), use SYSLINUX, and make it look like a hard disk.
This is what the main screen looked like once I'd picked these options:
When you click on 'Prepare Drive' you then run through a series of prompts....
'OK' you want to go ahead...
'OK' you're sure you want to go ahead...
Having prepared the drive you'll see a command window where all the files are listed as they
are copied over to the pen drive...
At this prompt I selected 'No'.
In the Tiny Core file system the syslinux folder is sitting in the boot folder so just
accept the default of option 1.
Click on 'OK' again to get the Syslinux loader installed.
That's all as far as RMprepUSB is concerned.
We now need to tidy up the pen drive and move some files to the right location. You can do this using Windows Explorer. Start by selecting the pen drive.
You'll see there are three directories there. Start by renaming cde to tce.
Next move into the boot directory. Here you'll find the two directories, isolinux and syslinux. Move into the isolinux directory where you'll find these files:
Move all of the files with the exception of isolinux.bin into the syslinux directory. You can then delete the isolinux directory.
Switch to the syslinux directory and rename the file isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
The final step is to edit the syslinux.cfg file. What I do here is, in all the lines beginning 'APPEND=', delete the word cde and add kmap=qwerty/uk. You obviously can adjust the last to match your particular keyboard layout.
That's it!
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