From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24029 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2002 03:40:12 -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 23966 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2002 03:40:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rly-ip01.mx.aol.com) (205.188.156.49) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2002 03:40:09 -0000 Received: from logs-th.proxy.aol.com (logs-th.proxy.aol.com [152.163.213.5]) by rly-ip01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/AOL-5.0.0) with ESMTP id WAA24652; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 22:36:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from default (AC95728A.ipt.aol.com [172.149.114.138]) by logs-th.proxy.aol.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id g2I3XpD459204; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 22:33:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Max" To: "Jonathan Larmour" Cc: "Christopher Faylor" , "ecos" , Subject: Please ignore my last email RE: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3C908E11.EAF7D772@redhat.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Apparently-From: ERR_USER_NULL X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00917.txt.bz2 > -----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 > -- > 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/