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Lightweight operating system based on FreeDOS
After USB installing is implemented (#7), it shouldn't be too much extra work to generate hard disk images that have a working Cobalt system (just extracting the contents of `system.zip`...
The current installer can format disks and copy a core DOS system, but more features should be implemented. - [ ] Avoid wiping target drive by default - [x] Install...
https://git.javispedro.com/cgit/vbados.git/about/#vbmouseexe-dos-mouse-driver This would need a detection mechanism in the installer, where VMs get VBMouse, and other systems get CuteMouse.
The old Cobalt OS used `PCICFG.EXE` to detect VirtualBox during installation, and added a text file to the C drive as a variable: `RBPCI\PCICFG.EXE -t *|FIND.EXE "DeviceID BEEF" > nul`...
It would be cool to include the version numbers of all included packages in the release notes for each version. Not sure yet what is the best way to do...
It would be neat if Cobalt could run on top of other DOS kernels in addition to FreeDOS, like MS-DOS or DR-DOS, for edge cases where FreeDOS might not be...
https://www.4dos.info/v4dos.htm#751 Another shell might also work better: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.3/pkg-html/group-apps.html
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Lightweight operating system based on FreeDOS