From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29942 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2002 11:48:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29806 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2002 11:48:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO executor.cambridge.redhat.com) (195.224.55.237) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2002 11:48:35 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (dell-paw-2.cambridge.redhat.com [195.224.55.226]) by executor.cambridge.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C610CABB0D; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:48:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from redhat.com (IDENT:jlarmour@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2EBmX208991; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:48:33 GMT Message-ID: <3C908E11.EAF7D772@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 04:16:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-7.0.12 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Cc: Christopher Faylor , ecos , cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00745.txt.bz2 Max wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] > > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:40 PM > > To: Jonathan Larmour > > Cc: ecos; cygwin@sources.redhat.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 > > > > > I don't want update every file. Which are ones I have to have? You shouldn't need to update. From what it says you can just use /dev/fd0 and ignore the "mount". But if that doesn't work, try just updating the cygwin dll itself. Jifl -- Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062 Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/