A while ago, I cooked up "DOS 6.2022". It downloads what it can, spits out archive or winworld links for the rest, requires cabextract on an ubuntu build machine, but will spit out a bootable DOS 6.22 ISO with pre-loaded goodies.
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I keep planning on cleaning it up and pushing it. Problem is some parts are really jank (ie dos won't install off cd so it spins up a qemu vm to expand the files)
I use it to boot DOS VMs (VMWare, Virtualbox, QEMU) all the time, whenever I make a material difference I burn it to a CD and boot actual machines off it. After fdisk, format c: /s, and dosinst dot bat it has enough to get you going.
Whenever I blow up and rebuild a DOS VM, the cards Netware supports: I own many PCI EtherLink IIIs and XLs, some DEC 21xxx tulips, suitable ne2k ISA and PCI clones. I generally speedrun this to get off the CD as soon as possible.
DOS VMs always use AMD PCnet (on a retro vlan, ofc), cards were so common I even have a real one in my Frankenstein'd HP Pentium 166. Provided you choose the right network card Netware just seems to handle its shit itself. F:LOGIN and you're off to the races.
So, since I can boot VMs and physical machines off a CD and Netware will Just Work(tm), the first image is DOS' mem with mscdex et al, the second is logged in to Netware connected to shares. I can FTP to that Netware share from my laptop and things just show up so win win.
Once Netware's up, just to make sure things work, I copy over NCSA "telnet". I also pull over odipkt which makes the Netware stack behave like the packet driver it expects. They're on the ISO as well but remember I REM'd out the CD drivers for moar ramz
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