dd under CygWin

Gregory Walker gwalker@jump.net
Wed Aug 23 19:05:00 GMT 2000


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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