Subject: RE: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin
From: max <[email-masked]>
To: Robert Collins <[email-masked]>, Christopher Faylor <[email-masked]>, Jonathan Larmour <[email-masked]>
Cc: ecos <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:20:07 -0800 (PST)

OK that's an inappropriate example.
Back to my original question. My cygwin is of version
1.3.10. The command dd failed because it does know
/dev/fd0.

$ dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redboot.bin of=/dev/fd0
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such file or directory
(instruction from Redboot User Guide)

--- Robert Collins <[email-masked]>
wrote:
> /dev/fd0 is a device, not a filesystem. You can't cd
> to /dev/fd0 anymore
> than you can cd to /dev/clipboard.
> 
> Rob
> 
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