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Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 20:19:11 +0000
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour AT redhat DOT com>
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To: max rtos <maxrtos AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin
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max rtos wrote:
> 4)in Cygwin
> mount -f -b //./a: /dev/fd0
> dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redboot.bin of=/dev/fd0
> then I got
> /dev/fd0: can not find the file or directory
> What do I need to check????

Erk. Perhaps this went away in cygwin 1.3.3 as well and I never noticed!

I'm CC'ing this to the cygwin list for an answer...

Cygwin dudes, how do you now get direct access to a floppy disk, i.e.
sector by sector, not the logical drive?

Jifl
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