Ever had the sheer desire to build DOS4, within the Nix sandbox, and receive a valid (but inaccurate) bootable DOS4 floppy?
Well, now you can!<li><a href="https://github.com/samueldr/dos4.nix/">https://github.com/samueldr/dos4.nix/</a></li>;
This involved figuring out how format, sys and friends decide a system is valid for format /S to work out fine.
I'm not really knowledgeable with DOS before 6.22, so I don't really know what to do with it. Though I did learn how to use edlin to futz about.
I guess a good "next step", if any is needed, is make select.exe happy with the floppy so it can be used to install to a hard drive interactively.
#nixos #nix #dos
samueldr /
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2024-05-25 10:26:41
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