Greetings, The goal is to create a bootable Linux installation on an SD card by writing an existing image using dd in Cygwin. The card is inserted to an SD card slot of a laptop and apparently appears as \\.\physicaldrive2 to the OS.
Now, "dd if=\\\\.\\physicaldrive2" reads something (hopefully from that card, hard to say for sure) but an attempt to write with "dd if=image of=\\\\.\\physicaldrive2" fails with "Invalid argument" error. Should this work? Is there something that one must do first? I tried "mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/foo" as suggested by someone but according to the Cygwin user's guide that is deprecated and besides, /dev/foo behaved just like \\\\.\\physicaldrive2 directly. FWIW, I tried to find if the card device gets mapped to some /dev/sd? but that didn't seem to be the case. Only /dev/sda was available (hard drive). Is it possible to list that kind of mappings somehow? -- Hannu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
