t seems that the 1.4MB floppy images are disappearing, so let's make a boot image for usb from the other bits that are given us. Specifically let's use pxeboot's vmlinuz and initrd.img. Red Hat Fedora Core 2 Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 We'll make a 7MB boot image here: mkfs.vfat -C bootimage.dd 7168 mkdir bootimage.dd.dir mount bootimage.dd bootimage.dd.dir -o loop cp -a /FC2/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz bootimage.dd.dir cp -a /FC2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img bootimage.dd.dir cp -a /FC2/isolinux/* bootimage.dd.dir mv bootimage.dd.dir/isolinux.cfg bootimage.dd.dir/syslinux.cfg umount bootimage.dd.dir syslinux bootimage.dd Now push this to your usb device. Mine is /dev/flash: dd if=bootimage.dd of=/dev/flash An alternative method is to use the boot.iso: mkdir boot.iso.dir mount boot.iso boot.iso.dir -o loop,ro mkfs.vfat -C bootimage.dd 7168 mkdir bootimage.dd.dir mount bootimage.dd bootimage.dd.dir -o loop cp -a boot.iso.dir/isolinux/* bootimage.dd.dir rm bootimage.dd.dir/isolinux.bin mv bootimage.dd.dir/isolinux.cfg bootimage.dd.dir/syslinux.cfg umount bootimage.dd.dir syslinux bootimage.dd