Linux and Floppy Disk Question...

[Joe]

so....I'm trying to create a boot floppy for Windows 95....using my Linux computer. And I'm utterly at a loss as to how to go about formatting the floppy (I have the boot floppy images on my laptops HDD aready).

So far i've tried the following codes in terminal

fdformat -n /dev/fd0
^ is the lowlevel format command, with my floppy drive set as the destination

# /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/fd0

^ The above code would've created a Linux filesystem on the floppy, which wouldn't have done my much good, but I figured it was worth a shot

and the last code is....

# /sbin/mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0

That would've been the Ideal code, since it would've created a DOS file system on the Floppy, which I'll need to get the boot disk images onto the floppy.

but I keep getting a device or file system is Read Only....anyway around that? (Yes I did use su to have root access)

I'm using Ubuntu 8. something, and an IBM thinkpad with an SCSI floppy drive