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From: "Max" <maxrtos AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>,
   "Jonathan Larmour" <jlarmour AT redhat DOT com>
Cc: "ecos" <ecos-discuss AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:18:44 -0600
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I updated my cyggwin (Of cause I did not grab all packages). My cygwin does
not know
the /dev/fd0 yet. Which
packages I have to absolutely to have in order to recognize the floppy
drive?
Thanks.

MAX
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:40 PM
> To: Jonathan Larmour
> Cc: ecos; cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com; max rtos
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:19:11PM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> >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?
>
> It went away in 1.3.4, actually.  This should explain how things work now:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00136.html
>
> cgf


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