On 19.09.2004 12:18 +0200, Mateusz Papiernik wrote:

>      * Linux:
>        gunzip -c generic-pc-xxx.img | dd of=/dev/hdX bs=16k
>        where X = the IDE device name of your HD/CF card
> 
> put the CF card/HD into the target PC
> plug the PC into the network (LAN/WAN/...)
> power it up
> 
> But I can't do dd if I haven't got any partitions (hda1 does not
> exist then). When I create FreeBSD partition with no filesystem

The instructions tell you to dd to /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1.

- Manuel