In fact, there are many ways to create a bootable MobileMate USB stick. Here we use UNetbootin to create our MobileMate USB stick. UNetbootin is available both in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Please read UNetbootin offical Wiki page “Live USB Creation Guide” to learn how to download and install UNetbootin on your OS. After you install the UNetbootin, follow the instruction below to create a bootable MobileMate USB stick, tested it on Windows and Linux with UNetbootin Version 585.

First, download the MobileMate “ISO Image” file “mobilemate-0.1a42.1.iso” at: MobileMate download page.

Then, backup you USB stick data into other safe place; Format USB stick as FAT32.

Then, start UNetbootin, select “Diskimage” radio button, click “Select disk image file” button “…”, select downloaded “mobilemate-0.1a42.1.iso” iso image file. Select “Type:”→“USB Drive”, “Drive:”→“YOUR USB STICK DRIVE TO INSTALL MOBILEMATE”. Make sure you select correct type and drive. If you select wrong item, maybe, you will lost your disk data or make OS can't boot. After you checked your selection, click “OK” to install. After finished the installation, select “Exit” to continue do some modification for our installation.

Open the USB stick in file manager. Delete “syslinux.cfg, ubnfilel.txt, ubninit, ubnkern, ubnpathl.txt”. Move “ldlinux.sys, menu.c32” into “boot/isolinux”, this will replace the old “menu.c32” file in folder “boot/isolinux”. Open folder “boot/isolinux”, rename “isolinux.cfg” to “syslinux.cfg”, delete “isolinux.bin”. Open file “syslinux.cfg” with text editor, replace line “append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet” with “append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet waitusb=5”, replace line “append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet lang=zh_CN.UTF-8” with “append initrd=/boot/tinycore.gz quiet lang=zh_CN.UTF-8 waitusb=5”. Then, rename folder “boot/isolinux” to “boot/syslinux”. At last, create “tce” folder in USB stick root directory. After all, you will get the USB stick files tree as below:

|-- boot
|   |-- bzImage
|   |-- syslinux
|   |   |-- boot.cat
|   |   |-- boot.msg
|   |   |-- f2
|   |   |-- f3
|   |   |-- f4
|   |   |-- ldlinux.sys
|   |   |-- menu.c32
|   |   `-- syslinux.cfg
|   `-- tinycore.gz
`-- tce

So, we finish to create a bootable MobileMate USB stick now.

After rebooting, press the appropriate button (usually F1, F2, F12, ESC, or backspace) while your computer is starting up to get to your BIOS boot menu and select USB drive as the startup target; otherwise if there's no boot selection option, go to the BIOS setup menu and change the startup order to boot USB by default. Note that Live USB drives are bootable only on PCs (not on Macs).