Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:57:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mount //./cdrom0 problem Message-ID: <20010724235711.P1987@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <07910EFBA642624E8C6E7DA72616655C1D5E9C@xch-nw-15.nw.nos.boeing.com> <10ff01c11487$4de52d50$b66416ac@spimageworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <10ff01c11487$4de52d50$b66416ac@spimageworks.com>; from dobrin@imageworks.com on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:26:29PM -0700 On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:26:29PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > Hi, > I've been backing up cd images by mounting them as block devices and using > dd to dump the image to a file (all on win2k). I just tryiied this on my > NT4 machine and found that : " mount -f -b //./cdrom0 /dev/cda " > doesn't seem to work on NT (but works fine on win2k). I get an error that > /dev/cda is not a recognized file or directory. Is the Block Device name > for the cdrom on NT different than the name on Win2k? (I tried //./cd-rom0 > too, to no effect). Has anyone else had success with mounting the CD-rom > Bolck device on NT? You can access the cd-rom on both, NT4 and W2K, using the drive letter: mount -f -b //./F: /dev/cda Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/