Read the Speakup-Modified Installation HOWTO. It painstakingly explains about rawrite for both DOS and Windows. That's what you need. http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html The rest--cygwin, etc--is just spinning your wheels going nowhere. Lee Maschmeyer writes: > From: Lee Maschmeyer <lee_maschmeyer@wayne.edu> > > Hi folks, > > For the benefit of any poor souls who might know even less than I (pretty > difficult, but then I knew less a week ago! :-), Linux files usually reside > in a file system called ext2. Windows files are in either FAT (including > FAT32) or NTFS. (There is a umsdos Unix file system and I think I've seen > reference to ext3 but I believe these are exceptions.) > > For reasons which are probably quixotic and impractical, I'd like to be able > to mess around with an ext2 ram disk, specifically INITRD.IMG on the RedHat > 8.0 distribution, from Windows (to get Linux set up). > > In a running Linux system this is done by mounting the ram disk with > appropriate options, but since I don't yet have Linux that isn't an option. > > I have Cygwin running under Windows but apparently its mount command doesn't > allow this. I know there are other Linux emulators but know nothing about > them, nor do I know the DOS disk utility people keep mentioning. > > Does anybody have any ideas as to how this might be done? > > Thanks loads, > > -- > > Lee Maschmeyer > lee_maschmeyer@wayne.edu > > "Santa was a sad old man > When he backed into the electric fan." > --Homer & Jethro > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list