Package repositories for 2.2.0

[coolcoder613eb]

Is there a package repository for 2.2.0 x86_64 and aarch64?
Can I build it myself?

[klange]

2.2.0 uses the same package repository as 2.0.x: http://toaruos.org/msk/2.0.x/

There is no centralized source repository for ports, and building them is not an automated process.

Some are on my Github: https://github.com/klange?tab=repositories

Others are in the toaruos org: https://github.com/orgs/toaruos/repositories

Some others are built directly from upstream source packages without modifications.

[coolcoder613eb]

I am not able to access those packages from x86_64 or aarch64 ToaruOS in QEMU on my M1 Mac.

[klange]

There are multiple mirrors configured for the package repository. If you are unable to reach any of them, you likely have a network configuration which the OS can not handle. If you are using the 2.2.0 release builds, you should try a newer CI build, as one particularly notable DNS resolver issue was only fixed after that release.

[coolcoder613eb]

Is it possible to run ToaruOS on my raspberry pi 4?
I have booted it on hardware before, most recently on a Thinkpad T430.

[klange]

Builds for the RPi4 are available, but they still lack necessary input device drivers for the OS to be useful.

[coolcoder613eb]

I usually boot from USB on my rpi, is that supported?
Also, is there a command-line only version of ToaruOS?

[klange]

I usually boot from USB on my rpi, is that supported?

The RPi4 build of the OS is provided as a kernel8.img file. Loading that is up to you. I do not actively provide any support for the RPi4 build as it remains experimental.

Also, is there a command-line only version of ToaruOS?

The bootloader on the x86-64 CD provides options for booting to VGA text mode, headless (a login session is started on a serial port), and to boot into the graphical environment with a full-screen terminal.

Headless configurations can also be attained for the aarch64 builds when running in QEMU by changing the provided command line (the -append argument to QEMU - change the start=live-session parameter to start=--headless and a login session will run on the first serial port). The RPi build has a hardcoded command-line that starts the desktop.

[coolcoder613eb]

[klange]

Can you please share your VM configuration, and also the results of ifconfig within the OS?

Also the contents of /etc/resolv.conf in the OS.

[coolcoder613eb]

Command:

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom image-2.iso -vga cirrus -smp 4 -m 3G -netdev user,id=net -device e1000,netdev=net

/etc/resolv.conf:

nameserver 10.0.2.3

Ifconfig:

[coolcoder613eb]

ping 8.8.8.8 works.

[klange]

Does it take ~2s for the "timed out" error to be printed?

[coolcoder613eb]

Yes

[klange]

You can try updating /etc/resolv.conf to point to an external DNS resolver directly. It sounds like the local DNS on your host system is not responding to the queries the VM is making.

[coolcoder613eb]

Working now, thanks.
How can I make it persistent?

[coolcoder613eb]

Maybe you should store some kind of filesystem overlay, that gets extracted on top of the ramdisk, and saved on shutdown?

[klange]

/etc/resolv.conf is populated by dhclient on startup. You can override the address QEMU's DHCP response gives by adding ,dns=... to your -netdev argument.

-vga cirrus

I wanted to ask if you have a particular reason for using the Cirrus card? I have no special support for it, but I do have support for the default Bochs VBE. I also look for QEMU's Bochs VBE PCI ID to trigger loading of the vmmouse driver, which gives seamless mouse support.

[coolcoder613eb]

I used cirrus because the maximum resolution is 1024x768, which will comfortably fit in a window.
Otherwise, I have to use QEMU fullscreen.

[coolcoder613eb]

Is there a port of flex?
Or can I build a cross-compiler to ToaruOS?

[coolcoder613eb]

(BTW, I am on IRC #toaruos)

[klange]

I used cirrus because the maximum resolution is 1024x768, which will comfortably fit in a window.
Otherwise, I have to use QEMU fullscreen.

You can configure the display resolution in the bootloader menu (and with the Bochs VBE card, also after boot with the set-resolution tool), but that also should not matter if you are using VGA text mode. By the way, you can press v in the bootloader menu to switch it to text mode early.

You can also supply the QEMU command-line option -fw_cfg name=opt/org.toaruos.bootmode,string=vga to have the bootloader skip the menu and go straight to VGA text mode.

Is there a port of flex?
Or can I build a cross-compiler to ToaruOS?

There is no native port of flex. The Docker images linked in the README include a cross-compiler toolchain.

(BTW, I am on IRC #toaruos)

I do not actively use IRC any more.

[klange]

(btw, while investigating your original issue, I discovered that the CDN I use to host the main package repository changed their infrastructure and broke two things; they started setting an oversized header, which broke the original request for the manifest file, and they also are incorrectly handling redundant /s in paths, which caused all packages to 404; I have fixed the latter with a change to the manifest files, but the former required accepting larger response headers in the fetch tool)