Re: DD for windows: - problem imaging a floppy disk......

["Kevin Dahl" <KDAHL at sidney dot ars dot usda dot gov>]

This may be where some of my MAJOR confusion is coming from.......

I do not use cygwin nor do I have it installed on my NT machine......I
am using a new windows dd port that was announced on a SANS webcast
yesterday.....

www.sans.org/webcasts/dd/

When I emailed <fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu> and told them my problem
originally, they told me that my notation should work and to contact the
cygwin people......

Here is the exact message that I got back from
<fileutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 

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Hmm...  That does seem like it should work.  Try the Cygwin folks at
the following locations.

Bob

http://cygwin.com/ 

      Cygwin Home Page 

http://cygwin.com/faq/ 

      Cygwin FAQ. Most excellent! 

http://cygwin.com/bugs.html 

      Cygwin Bug Report Guidelines. This is a good reference for
      general bug reporting.
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I tried your notation (/dev/fd0) but of course it doesn't work cuz I am
not using cygwin........So I am not sure who to turn to now........

Thanks for your patience and time........


K-Dee

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>>> Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com> 4/4/2002 1:16:39 PM >>>
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:05:56PM -0700, Kevin Dahl wrote:
>Thanks for the response.........
>
>It looks like I was doing exactly what they said to do on the page
you
>referenced.......

Um.  No, you weren't.

>I even tried the following and it didn't work......(gave me "No Such
>File or Directory" error)
>
>dd if=D:\dd\boot2.img of=//device/floppy0
>dd if=D:\dd\boot2.img of=//device/fd0

Where did you get //device?  This is not what is documented.

Use /dev/fd0.  That's what is suggested in the documentation.

You'll also probably be safer using cygwin notation for all of your
filenames, i.e.:

dd if=/cygdrive/d/dd/boot2.img of=/dev/fd0

>Why is it telling me permission denied when I try it the other
>way....... ??
>
>dd if=D:\dd\boot2.img of=\\.\A: .......
>
>??

Calm down.

The other way doesn't work anymore.  That's why there is an advisory
about
Cygwin 1.3.4.

cgf

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