Followup-while making grub floppy `Permission denied

[MRZ]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:48:39 +1000, Jason Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> possibly try another floppy disk, or drive?
 
 On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:37:30PM -0700, MRZ wrote:
> > address@hidden:/usr/share/grub/i386-pc$ dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=3D512 
> > seek=1
> > dd: /dev/fd0: Permission denied
> > 105+1 records in
> > 105+1 records out
> > address@hidden:/usr/share/grub/i386-pc$


I've only the single floppy drive on this box, but I did go ahead and
try a new floppy disk. I still get that "Permission denied" error.
It's obviously something with dd but - well, what?? And why wouldn't it
happen with stage1 if it happens with stage2?

Does the capacity of the floppy disk matter? Isn't it irrelevant if
the disk is already formatted (or not)..?

Marc.