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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:02:46 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ahmed=20Hashim?= cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /cygdrive/a permission denied In-Reply-To: <20040115192358.22970.qmail@web41709.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20040115192358.22970.qmail@web41709.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ahmed Hashim wrote: > --- Larry Hall wrote: > 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. > > I thought about that but I don't have /dev/fd0 in fact > I don't have /dev at all. See . HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/