mkdosfs simply exits

[Glenn Engel <glenne@lsid.hp.com>]

I have built a linux rescue floppy that I am using to do restores of a
win95 system for a school lab environment.  The floppy is intended to
be able to reformat the hard drive and re-load a valid setup over the
network or from a CD.  Here's my problem:

I got the latest mkdosfs that supports fat32 and compiled it.  It seems
to work fine on my full-blown linux system but after booting from the
rescue floppy all it does is silently exit with no action taken.

Any ideas on how can I figure out why it doesn't work ?  

Thanks,

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Glenn 

Glenn Engel / glenn_engel@hp.com / Hewlett Packard / NN7N / 425-335-2066