Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20040115192358.22970.qmail@web41709.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ahmed=20Hashim?= Subject: Re: /cygdrive/a permission denied To: Cygwin List In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040115135353.037d3490@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes --- 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. > > -- > 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/ > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- 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/