Download the Fedora disk image from a mirror: # wget http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fedora/5/i386/os/images/diskboot.img Make sure that the USB device is unmounted: # sudo umount /dev/sda1 Copy the img to the usb key device: # dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda Reboot and then select a network based install by typing: linux askmethod