> Why is this happening? I've already tried to replace it with a new
> floppy drive:
>
> [root@baglady root]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.4.20-18.8
> Insert a disk in /dev/fd0. Any information on the disk will be lost.
> Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
> mkdosfs: unable to allocate space for FAT image in memory
> Failed to format /dev/fd0
> [root@baglady root]#
Does a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1" to zero the first 512 bytes before the partition format make any difference?
~ Daniel
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