* RE: dd under CygWin
@ 2000-08-23 14:20 Heribert Dahms
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From: Heribert Dahms @ 2000-08-23 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
Hi DGP85,
if you boot a DOS disk, what about format?
Else, you could just as well boot a Linux rescue/install disk!
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
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> Il Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:51:54 +0200, su mls.linux.cygwin con una penna
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> >95/98: No chance since no raw device support.
> And if I launch from a DOS Boot Disk?
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* Re: dd under CygWin
2000-08-23 10:54 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
@ 2000-08-23 19:05 ` Gregory Walker
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From: Gregory Walker @ 2000-08-23 19:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
At 12:40 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>> >95/98: No chance since no raw device support.
>>And if I launch from a DOS Boot Disk?
>
>No difference. 9x has no support for what dd does.
For what it is worth, MSDOS has the rawwrite.exe command
which is similar to dd. For example, you can copy a Linux
boot image to a floppy with it. I found it in the
"Crash Recovery Kit for Linux" at < http://crashrecovery.org/ >
Cheers,
Gregory Walker gwalker@jump.net
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* Re: dd under CygWin
2000-08-23 8:52 ` DGP85
@ 2000-08-23 10:54 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-08-23 19:05 ` Gregory Walker
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From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) @ 2000-08-23 10:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, cygwin
At 11:50 AM 8/23/2000, DGP85 wrote:
>Il Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:51:54 +0200, su mls.linux.cygwin con una penna
>d'oca e l'inchiostro hai scritto:
>
> >95/98: No chance since no raw device support.
>And if I launch from a DOS Boot Disk?
No difference. 9x has no support for what dd does.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
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* Re: dd under CygWin
2000-08-23 6:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
@ 2000-08-23 8:52 ` DGP85
2000-08-23 10:54 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
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From: DGP85 @ 2000-08-23 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Il Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:51:54 +0200, su mls.linux.cygwin con una penna
d'oca e l'inchiostro hai scritto:
>95/98: No chance since no raw device support.
And if I launch from a DOS Boot Disk?
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* Re: dd under CygWin
2000-08-23 6:20 DGP85
@ 2000-08-23 6:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-08-23 8:52 ` DGP85
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2000-08-23 6:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
DGP85 wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a old hard disk and I need to clean it totally.
> I need to use the linux command
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb
> but I can't start linux.
> How I can use dd in CygWin.
95/98: No chance since no raw device support.
NT/W2K:
Figure out which drive number the drive has (NT Disk Manager).
Let's presume it's 2:
$ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/xyz
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xyz
Note that "xyz" is a placeholder. Name the drive as you want,
for example "/dev/hdb" or "/dev/garfield"
If you want to access a single partition as raw device, you only
have to know the drive letter, let's presume G:
$ mount -f -b //./G: /dev/earthquake
Note the "//./" prefix (slash slash dot slash) which is the common
prefix for devices in NT/W2K except for old DOS device names ("COMx",
"CON", "AUX", "PRN").
Hope, that helps,
Corinna
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* dd under CygWin
@ 2000-08-23 6:20 DGP85
2000-08-23 6:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: DGP85 @ 2000-08-23 6:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hi,
I have a old hard disk and I need to clean it totally.
I need to use the linux command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb
but I can't start linux.
How I can use dd in CygWin.
Thanks
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