Booting from USB - Stuck at command line

[fuf]

Hello,

I used unetbootin to create a bootable USB stick with CorePlus on.

The boot menu gives me a choice of 7 or 8 window managers. Whichever one I choose the same thing happens. Things seem to be loading, some text scrolls by very fast, but then the screen switches to a command prompt:

Core is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
www.tinycorelinux.com

tc@box:~$

I read something about running 'tinycore xsetup', but when I try that I just get:

-sh: tinycore: not found

Any ideas? I'm afraid I'm fairly new to all this.

For reference, I can boot into Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux without any problems.

[gerald_clark]

Copy the CorePlus ISO directly to the USB stick. Do not use unetbootin.

[fuf]

Thanks for the reply.

I wasn't sure what you meant so I tried two things:
1. Copied literally just the .iso file onto the USB stick
2. Mounted the .iso and copied the three directories onto the USB stick (boot, [BOOT], and cde)

Both times I just got:
"This is not a bootable disk"

edit: found this thread and presumably I need to use grub4dos to create a bootable usb. I'll try that and report back:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=10430.0

[gerald_clark]

dd if=the.iso of=/dev/sdx

[fuf]

Thank you. That worked.

(I was getting very confused trying to understand that grub4dos stuff)

[bmarkus]

Or use the official USB installer:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/core2usb/

[mocore]

Thank you. That worked.

(I was getting very confused trying to understand that grub4dos stuff)

fyi
grub4dos is just one of the  #bootloaders
you could install/use 
to get you os  starting up

i think the.iso uses syslinux boot loader

& this guide was able help me make a little more sense of grub4dos and all this boot loader lark
http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm