On Mar 5 17:49, Hannu Koivisto wrote: > 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?
Not really. Don't use Windows device names. You can find the mappings from POSIX device names to Windows device names here: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices In your case that would be /dev/sdc. But that probably won't work. I don't remember the exact details, but you shoudl rather access the first partition on the device, rather than the entire device. like this: /dev/sdc1 > 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 Yep. > 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? cat /proc/partitions Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
