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Re: /cygdrive/a permission denied
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Ahmed Hashim <hamada_18 at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:34:03 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: /cygdrive/a permission denied
- References: <20040115192358.22970.qmail@web41709.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ahmed Hashim wrote:
> Larry Hall wrote:
> > At 01:30 PM 1/15/2004, Ahmed Hashim you wrote:
> > >I'm using cygwin on Windows XP. I want to create a
> > >boot disk for my target machine
> > >
> > >when I do the following:
> > >dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redboot.bin of=/cygdrive/a
> > >
> > >I get the following message:
> > >dd: opening '/cygdrive/a': Permission denied
> > >
> > Use /dev/fd0 instead.
> >
> I thought about that but I don't have /dev/fd0 in fact
> I don't have /dev at all.
>
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