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Re: /cygdrive/a permission denied


 --- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> 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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