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Description of problem:
When trying to create a boot disk using mkbootdisk, it fails with :
 mkbootdisk --verbose -v 2.4.9-13 --device /dev/fd0H1440 
Insert a disk in /dev/fd0H1440. Any information on the disk will be lost.
Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: 
Formatting /dev/fd0H1440... mkdosfs: unable to allocate space for FAT
image in memory
Failed to format /dev/fd0H1440


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mkbootdisk --verbose -v 2.4.9-13 --device /dev/fd0H1440
2.OR
3. mkdosfs -v /dev/fd0H1440
	

Actual Results:  Insert a disk in /dev/fd0H1440. Any information on the
disk will be lost.
Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort: 
Formatting /dev/fd0H1440... mkdosfs: unable to allocate space for FAT
image in memory
Failed to format /dev/fd0H1440

OR

mkdosfs 2.7 (14 Feb 2001)
/dev/fd0H1440 has 2 heads and 18 sectors per track,
logical sector size is 512,
using 0xf0 media descriptor, with 0 sectors;
file system has 2 16-bit FATs and 2 sectors per cluster.
FAT size is -32639 sectors, and provides 32631 clusters.
Root directory contains 224 slots.
Volume ID is 3c03ab5e, no volume label.
mkdosfs: unable to allocate space for FAT image in memory


Expected Results:  something like "done"

Additional info:

 uname -a : Linux otto 2.4.9-13enterprise #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 19:34:18 EST
2001 i686 unknown