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Re: DD for windows: - problem imaging a floppy disk......
- From: "Kevin Dahl" <KDAHL at sidney dot ars dot usda dot gov>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:58:12 -0700
- Subject: Re: DD for windows: - problem imaging a floppy disk......
This may be where some of my MAJOR confusion is coming from.......
I do not use cygwin nor do I have it installed on my NT machine......I
am using a new windows dd port that was announced on a SANS webcast
yesterday.....
www.sans.org/webcasts/dd/
When I emailed <fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu> and told them my problem
originally, they told me that my notation should work and to contact the
cygwin people......
Here is the exact message that I got back from
<fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Hmm... That does seem like it should work. Try the Cygwin folks at
the following locations.
Bob
http://cygwin.com/
Cygwin Home Page
http://cygwin.com/faq/
Cygwin FAQ. Most excellent!
http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines. This is a good reference for
general bug reporting.
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I tried your notation (/dev/fd0) but of course it doesn't work cuz I am
not using cygwin........So I am not sure who to turn to now........
Thanks for your patience and time........
K-Dee
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>>> Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com> 4/4/2002 1:16:39 PM >>>
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:05:56PM -0700, Kevin Dahl wrote:
>Thanks for the response.........
>
>It looks like I was doing exactly what they said to do on the page
you
>referenced.......
Um. No, you weren't.
>I even tried the following and it didn't work......(gave me "No Such
>File or Directory" error)
>
>dd if=D:\dd\boot2.img of=//device/floppy0
>dd if=D:\dd\boot2.img of=//device/fd0
Where did you get //device? This is not what is documented.
Use /dev/fd0. That's what is suggested in the documentation.
You'll also probably be safer using cygwin notation for all of your
filenames, i.e.:
dd if=/cygdrive/d/dd/boot2.img of=/dev/fd0
>Why is it telling me permission denied when I try it the other
>way....... ??
>
>dd if=D:\dd\boot2.img of=\\.\A: .......
>
>??
Calm down.
The other way doesn't work anymore. That's why there is an advisory
about
Cygwin 1.3.4.
cgf
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