In the OP's 7z command, they have actually concatenated 3 steps into one. So if you did not copy their command exactly, and tried unzipping seperately or using different tools, you would need to do the 3 steps: Unzip the .ISO (and you will get the files you show in your screenshot) Unzip the initrd file (and you will get another file initrd~) Unzip the initrd~ file (and you will get the whole bunch of new folders and files that includes the root directory with the fumagician tool/script):