On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:25:36 -0800
Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:10:34AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I've never seen any documentation.  What I'd do, though, is create a 
> > file of the proper size -- either by dd'ing from a real floppy or by 
> > using /dev/zero -- use vnconfig to turn it into a disk, format it with 
> > newfs_msdos, and mount it.
> 
> if you want a bootable BSD filesystem on that:
>   disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0a floppy
>   newfs /dev/rfd0a
>   /usr/mdec/installboot -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a
> 
> on i386, have a look at:
>   /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies
>   /usr/src/distrib/common/Makefile.tarfloppy
> 
> Ben
> 

Thanks a lot for all suggestions. At "man installboot" we can find all the necessary stuff to produce a bootable floppy. And at sys/arch/i386/conf can be found a ready to use config file to compile a DISKLESS kernel.

Paulo