Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040115135353.037d3490@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:54:23 -0500 To: Ahmed Hashim , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: /cygdrive/a permission denied In-Reply-To: <20040115183043.49537.qmail@web41707.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040115183043.49537.qmail@web41707.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/