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Date:	Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:54:23 -0500
To:	Ahmed Hashim <hamada_18 AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: /cygdrive/a permission denied
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At 01:30 PM 1/15/2004, Ahmed Hashim you wrote:
>I'm using cygwin on Windows XP. I want to create a
>boot disk for my target machine 
>
>when I do the following:
>dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redboot.bin of=/cygdrive/a
>
>I get the following message: 
>dd: opening '/cygdrive/a': Permission denied 


Use /dev/fd0 instead.


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