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Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:14:13 -0600
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Mohammed Iqbal.H wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> Thanks ,it worked.
> 
> Thanks again
> iqbal
> 
> 
> --- Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it> wrote:
> 
>> --- "Mohammed Iqbal.H" ha scritto:
>>> dd if={.dd image} of=/cygdrive/e
>>>
>>> As 'e' is the USB key.
>>>
>>> error message:
>>>
>>> dd :opening '/cygdrive/e':Is a directory
>> /cygdrive/e is a mount point
>>
>> To have a hint about the device name
>>
>> $ cat /proc/partitions 
>> major minor  #blocks  name
>>
>>     8     0  39070080 sda
>>     8     1  39062488 sda1
>>     8    16   1006592 sdb
>>     8    17   1006576 sdb1
>>
>> my USB key is  /dev/sdb
>> and the 1st partition is /dev/sdb1
>>
>>  dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/tmp/usbkey_partition_image
>> 2013152+0 records in
>> 2013152+0 records out
>> 1030733824 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 165.357 s, 6.2
>> MB/s
>>
>> $ dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/usbkey_image
>> 2013184+0 records in
>> 2013184+0 records out
>> 1030750208 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 196.923 s, 5.2
>> MB/s
>>
>>
>> I am not responsable if you destroy you USB key 
>> playing with dd.
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> iqbal
>>  
>> Regards
>> Marco
>>
>>
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<pop>
well, you could MOUNT the image and COPY the files over, but thats a
really tricky thing to do in cygwin (none of my attempts have worked)

You'd be mounting the image on, say, /mnt/usbImage/, as a Loopback mount.
or change its extention to .iso and open it with 7zip File Manager


Just a thought,
morgan Gangwere

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