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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:30:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ahmed=20Hashim?= <hamada_18 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: /cygdrive/a permission denied
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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 

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