RE: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin

["Max" <maxrtos@yahoo.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlarmour@localhost.localdomain
> [mailto:jlarmour@localhost.localdomain]On Behalf Of Jonathan Larmour
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:49 AM
> To: Max
> Cc: Christopher Faylor; ecos; cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin
>
>
> 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
Sorry, I did get it yet. Cygwin is a big set of programs, which one do
you mean?
Cygwin people, I did not see cygwin dll from cygwin setup window.
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