Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe@sources.redhat.com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help@sources.redhat.com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000823205354.00a62810@pop.jump.net>
X-Sender: gwalker@pop.jump.net
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:08:55 -0500
To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
From: Gregory Walker <gwalker@jump.net>
Subject: Re: dd under CygWin
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000823123935.01eb1fc8@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
References: <mls7qsc8tpkfqgq9issd233q2mukcaa8ja@4ax.com>
 <boj7qsk08178oh0es1l1vg36650us3l1fo@dgp85.invalid>
 <39A3D6FA.C6B1BA26@cygnus.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

At 12:40 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
 >> >95/98: No chance since no raw device support.
 >>And if I launch from a DOS Boot Disk?
 >
 >No difference. 9x has no support for what dd does.

For what it is worth, MSDOS has the rawwrite.exe command
which is similar to dd. For example, you can copy a Linux
boot image to a floppy with it. I found it in the
"Crash Recovery Kit for Linux" at <http://crashrecovery.org/>

Cheers,
Gregory Walker           gwalker@jump.net



--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com