dd image onto a usb key

morgan gangwere 0.fractalus@gmail.com
Tue May 29 02:27:00 GMT 2007


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Brian Dessent wrote:
> morgan gangwere wrote:
> 
>> well, you could MOUNT the image and COPY the files over, but thats a
>> really tricky thing to do in cygwin (none of my attempts have worked)
> 
> It's "really tricky" because it's impossible.  The mount command in
> Cygwin simply manipulates a table of path translation entries, e.g.
> "c:/cygwin/bin = /bin".  It is not a mount command like you'd find in
> Linux, it cannot do a loopback mount or anything like that.  Cygwin is
> not a kernel, it does not implement any filesystem drivers.  If you want
> to mount an ISO image, you need to use a native Windows tool, like
> Daemon Tools, Alcohol 120%, and I'm sure countless others.  Once the
> image is mounted as a drive letter you can of course add Cygwin mount
> entries to locate it where you want it in the POSIX filespace, but again
> that's just doing a glorified search/replace on the pathname, which is
> all the Cygwin mount table amounts to.
> 
> Brian
> 
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> 
thanks. I assumed Cygwin could handle mounting loopbacks, though I guess
I was wrong.

just a thought,
Morgan Gangwewre

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