On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone > > having trouble writing with 'dd' on a iMac running Darwin 10.2.3. > Trying to write a copy of floppyC31.fs to a USB floppy and cant seem to > get anywhere with it. as follows is what it spits back at me. Hoping > that someone can point out my obvious mistake. > > I worked out that the USB floppy is mounted to /dev/disk1 by running > mount > > bash-2.05a$ mount > /dev/disk0s5 on / (local) > devfs on /dev (local) > fdesc on /dev (union) > <volfs> on /.vol (read-only) > automount -fstab [356] on /Network/Servers (automounted) > automount -static [356] on /automount (automounted) > /dev/disk2s0 on /Volumes/OpenBSD:i386 3.1 Unofficial (local, nodev, > nosuid, read > /dev/disk1 on /Volumes/Unlabeled (local, nodev, nosuid) > > then i try and run dd as it say's in my manual but i get this > > bash-2.05a$ sudo dd if=floppyC31.fs of=/dev/disk1 bs=36b > dd: /dev/disk1: Device busy > > I cant point it to /volumes/Untitled as it says its a directory and > cant write there. Cheers if anyone can help.
Try unmounting the floppy before using DD to write directly to it? I.E. sudo umount /dev/disk1 Then run your dd command again and see if it works. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
