That won't work if the disk has never been formatted before. If you have to format a floppy, first do "superformat /dev/fd0" as root, and to make it Linux native, do the "mke2fs /dev/fd0." Otherwise, it will be for DOS or Windows. Another note, if a user is in the group "floppy," they can format floppies without first having to "su" to root.
