TuxPE 10 Readme
By Jack R. Chiles II
jack.r.chiles@gmail.com
https://www.reddit.com/user/tuxedo_jack/

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Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: History
3: Preparing Your Bootable Media
4: Conclusion

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1: Introduction

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Thank you for choosing TuxPE! We know that there is a 
wide selection of PE environments, and we're happy 
that you chose ours for your Windows repair needs - 

NO, NO, STOP THAT, NO CHATTY COPY!

TuxPE is designed as a repair tool for unbootable or
infected systems. Simply download it, burn it to DVD
or a flash drive (or PXEboot, if you're a sysadmin or
helldesk tech), and do what you need to do to get your 
job done.

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2: History

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When I worked for Geek Squad, I got hooked on MRI PE.
It did what it was supposed to do, which was to be a
bootable repair environment.

I left Geek Squad in 2009 to go become a tech at an
Austin-area MSP, and from there I've moved onwards and
upwards (I'm currently a senior systems administrator
slash information security administrator at another
Austin MSP), but WinPE has always proven vital to my
job, and it's come in handy along the way. 

One night, I got really bored (and really, REALLY drunk),
and, well, TuxPE was born from that. It's come quite a
long way since.

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3: Preparing Your Bootable Media

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Okay. You have three files here. One is a .iso, which can
be burned to DVD _right now_ and booted from. The other is
a .zip, which is used to update existing bootable flash
drives. The last is a VHD, which is used for Hyper-V
and virtual machines. Just attach it, 

To make your flash drive bootable, open an elevated 
command prompt and enter the following:

diskpart
list disk
sel disk X (where X is the number of your flash drive)
clean
create part pri
format fs=fat32 quick
active
assign
exit
exit

Once you've done that, copy the contents of the zip file
to the root of the flash drive, and you're done and good
to go.

Please note that for this to boot on UEFI machines, you 
must be using a FAT / FAT32 flash drive (NTFS will not 
work, and APFS / HFS+ is right out).

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4: Conclusion

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So now that I've gone over it, I do hope that it was
sufficiently clear as to how to do things.

Bughunters: e-mail me with issues. I want to make
this thing work well enough for a general release
(i.e. out on torrent trackers).

I can be reached at jack.r.chiles@gmail.com.

- Jack R. Chiles II
Senior Systems Administrator / Chief Thaumaturge
jack.r.chiles@gmail.com