"Jeremy Fowler" <JFowler@westrope.com> wrote:

> um... you can't format a floppy with NTFS or FAT32. All Windows formatted
floppies are just plain old FAT.

FAT 12, to be precise.  FAT16 is so similar to FAT12 that most utilities
capable of one handle the other easily.  FAT32 adds some new wrinkles - it
wasn't until just recently that syslinux could be used on FAT32, for
instance.