Re: treating drives as files

Alex Goldman wrote: > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image > > This is what I had above. Cygwin doesn't have /dev. This does Actually Alex you said that you could do that in Unix not that you had tried it in Cygwin. You only mentioned if=/cygdrive/d and if="D:" Both of which I tried yesterday

Re: treating drives as files

> See also > . This solved my problem. Thanks Igor and Chris. Indeed, my statement about there not being a "/dev" was strange considering the fact that I use /dev/null all the time in Cygwin. -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: treating drives as files

On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image > > > >This is what I had above. > > Right. Remember what Cygwin is trying to emulate? > > >Cygwin doesn't have /dev. This doesn't work. > > Actually, it does work. That's why I mentioned it. Not

Re: treating drives as files

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Alex Goldman wrote: > On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote: > > >In UNIX, one can do things like > > > > > >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_im

Re: treating drives as files

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:37:11AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote: >On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote: >> >In UNIX, one can do things like >> > >> >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image >> > >> >Is this possible in Cygwin?

Re: treating drives as files

On 7/21/05, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote: > >In UNIX, one can do things like > > > >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image > > > >Is this possible in Cygwin? > > Yes. Here is the syntax: > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image

Re: treating drives as files

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Alex Goldman wrote: >In UNIX, one can do things like > >dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image > >Is this possible in Cygwin? Yes. Here is the syntax: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

treating drives as files

In UNIX, one can do things like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=~/disk_image Is this possible in Cygwin? I tried dd if=/cygdrive/d and dd if="D:" but that doesn't work. Also, I googled up some suggestions in the mailing list archives, but they didn't work either (Cygwin must have changed since the questi