Initial DOS VM tooling setup

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+		FreeDOS 1.4 ("FreeDOS 1.4")
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+
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+		General system requirements:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  * DOS-compatible system (Intel + BIOS, or UEFI with Legacy support)
+
+  * At least 20MB free disk space:
+
+    20MB  Plain DOS system
+    30MB  Plain DOS system, with sources
+
+    275MB  Full installation including applications and games
+    450MB  Full installation with sources
+
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+		What's in all those zip files?
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+FD14-LiveCD.zip
+
+  * FD14BOOT.IMG - Basic FreeDOS installation boot floppy image.
+    If your computer has a CD-ROM drive, but you cannot boot from the Live CD
+    or Legacy CD. Use this diskette image to boot the system. Then insert the
+    install CD. The FreeDOS installer should do the rest. This diskette
+    image is for installation purposes only and does not provide a Live
+    Environment.
+
+  * FD14LIVE.ISO - The FreeDOS 1.4 installer.  Most users should
+    use this image to install FreeDOS.
+
+    Depending on your computer system and hardware configuration, you
+    can also use the LiveCD to boot and run FreeDOS directly from the
+    CD-ROM without installation to your hard drive.
+
+FD14-LegacyCD.zip
+
+  * FD14BOOT.IMG - This zip archive also contains a copy of the basic
+    CD-ROM installation boot floppy.
+
+  * FD14LGCY.ISO - A bootable CD image designed for older hardware. If
+    you cannot boot the LiveCD to install FreeDOS, try this disc image.
+
+    This disc image uses the older El Torito boot CD format. Some newer
+    computers and virtual machines cannot use this older format. Unless
+    you have a computer that requires this type of bootable CD, we
+    recommend using the LiveCD instead.
+
+FD14-BonusCD.zip
+
+  * FD14BNS.ISO - A non-bootable CD image that contains some FreeDOS
+    packages that are not installed as part of either the LiveCD or
+    the Legacy CD.
+
+FD14-LiteUSB.zip
+
+  * FD14LITE.IMG - A minimal FreeDOS installer, as a USB fob drive
+    image. This does not contain all of the packages from either the
+    LiveCD or the LegacyCD, and instead only contains a basic set of
+    FreeDOS packages.
+
+  * FD14LITE.VMDK - A virtual machine disk file, compatible with a
+    variety of virtual machine software including VirtualBox, VMware,
+    and other systems.
+
+    Using a VMDK file can simplify installing FreeDOS. Just attach the
+    VMDK image to your virtual machine software as a hard drive, and
+    boot it. (Please note that you will still need to create a virtual
+    hard disk to install FreeDOS)
+
+FD14-FullUSB.zip
+
+  * FD14FULL.IMG - Plain DOS system and Full install USB stick image.
+
+  * FD14FULL.VMDK - A virtual machine disk file, compatible with a
+    variety of virtual machine software. Just attach the VMDK image to
+    your virtual machine as a hard drive, and boot it.
+
+VERIFY.TXT
+
+  * Contains MD5, SHA256 and SHA512 hashes for all of the different
+    release files. You can verify your copy of FreeDOS with these.
+
+README.TXT
+
+  * The "before you choose and install" document. (All of the zip
+    files listed above also have a copy of the README file.)
+
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+		FreeDOS Floppy-Only Edition (FD14-x86)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+FreeDOS 1.4 includes a Floppy-Only Edition! This edition should run on
+any hardware that can run FreeDOS and has EGA or better graphics:
+
+  * Are you running a '286 or another classic system without a CD-ROM
+    drive?  Install from these floppies to install FreeDOS.
+
+  * Do you have just one hard drive and no CD or floppy drive? Just
+    copy the contents of the floppies to a temporary directory and run
+    the installer from there.
+
+  * Want to perform a "headless" install to a different DOS directory?
+    It's easy with the command line options.
+
+The Floppy-Only Edition uses a completely different installer than
+the CD-ROM or USB installers. The Floppy-Only Edition does not use
+any of those other media to install.
+
+The Floppy-Only Edition contains a limited set of FreeDOS programs
+that are more useful on classic PC hardware.
+
+The FreeDOS Floppy-Only Edition is distributed as single zip archive that
+contains several pre-made floppy diskette images:
+
+    These zip archives contain image files for several common floppy
+    diskette media under separate directories:
+
+    * 720k - 3.5" 720k diskette images
+
+    * 144m - 3.5" 1.44mb diskette images
+
+    * 120m - 5.25" 1.2mb diskette images
+
+    Each of those sets contain a number of pre-made disk images:
+
+    * x86BOOT.img - A floppy boot disk image with the x86 installer.
+
+    * x86DSK??.img - Several floppy diskette images that contain the
+      core FreeDOS operating system files. The number of floppy images
+      and amount of files on each varies depending on the diskette
+      capacity.
+
+To conserve space, the FreeDOS Floppy-Only Edition does not contain
+the source code for the FreeDOS packages. You can find the source code
+via the FreeDOS website (https://www.freedos.org/download/) or from
+the other release media, like the USB or CD-ROM installer.
+