Can't create driver update floppy

Having gone through the howto http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/suse-people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/html/ for creating an update floppy I still receive the "no floppy found" when linuxrc tries to read the floppy. Specifying /dev/fd0 does not yield any good results either. Does anyone have a x86_64 update floppy that they have successfully used to perform a pre-install driver update load to SuSE 9.1 Professional?