First need a pen with FAT16 (this is not an accurate information) FAT32 also works (without LBA ?!?) , something the dificult is make the pen usb, boot ... fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 1,9 GiB, 1992294400 bytes, 3891200 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x844f3a44 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 * 1 3891199 3891199 1,9G 6 FAT16 with gparted (fat16 + flag bootable) Than we can put boot.iso on a usb stick (now also copied and ranamed as Network Installers), for example: https://alt.fedoraproject.org/ wget https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-25-1.3.iso As root usb must be formated or else format usb with: # mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1. # /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-25-1.3.iso /dev/sdb1 (just need add --reset-mbr if before the pen usb isn't bootable) and check if boots: qemu-system-x86_64 -drive format=raw,file=/dev/sdb Info deprecated: Answer the question, Where is diskboot.img ( http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2008-April/msg01563.html ) boot.iso is the replacement, and we can boot on USB like explain above.