I am running a rather old version of linux(RH9.0) and I am trying to make some "dos floppy bootdisks" in Dosbox. The program Im using to make the boot disks is called boot98.exe. I think it was made by someone called Dr. D or something. Well anyways, Im able to mount my floppy drive using the command

c:\mount -t floppy a /mnt/floppy

I can send files to and from the floppy to my mounted hard disk and I can delete files so I know with out a doubt that I have access to my floppy. The problem is when I use the bootdisk creating program inside of dosbox using the following command.

c:\ makedisk.bat

I get this output message:

Please put a 1.44 floppy disk in your A-drive now.
Press any key to continue.

I hit Enter and no writing to the floppy drive occurs. Is there anyway that I can correct this issue? I've searched pretty extensively and I haven't found anything that answers this paricular question. Also, If there isnt a way to correct this problem, do you have any suggestions for how I might be able to make a win98 bootable floppy disk that I can also have cdrom support given the fact that Im trying to do this inside the linux OS. Many thanks in advance.