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How to copy grub onto floppy

I had SuSE9.1 (personal edition) installed on a pc and access it by booting a floppy loaded with grub. Somehow this floppy failed to work.

I am not allowed to install grub onto this pc. Thus, I need to remake a floppy that allows me to boot up with grub and initiate SuSE9.1 from there.

I have the SuSE 9.1 CD, if that is of any help.
I have another pc loaded with SuSE9.2 (and the 5CD) and grub together in the hda.

Anyone have any practical idea how to copy grub into floppy?

This is taken from section 3.1 "Creating a GRUB boot floppy" in the grub info manual:

Code:

To create a GRUB boot floppy, you need to take the files `stage1' and

`stage2' from the image directory, and write them to the first and the

second block of the floppy disk, respectively.



  *Caution:* This procedure will destroy any data currently stored on

the floppy.



  On a UNIX-like operating system, that is done with the following

commands:



    # cd /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc

    # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1

    1+0 records in

    1+0 records out

    # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1

    153+1 records in

    153+1 records out

    #

try once, but the floppy hangs when booted.

will try again :)