Max wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:40 PM > > To: Jonathan Larmour > > Cc: ecos; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 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/