Workflows

[Will Senn]

Hi Norman,

This is great. Just the info I was looking for. Now, I'm off to figuring 
out if I added a wifi card or if it's just some whitelist issue with my 
T430 and dedicating it to Sculpt.

Thanks,

Will

On 12/23/22 4:48 AM, Norman Feske wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> thanks for joining the mailing list and for giving Sculpt a try!
>
> I just want to add another few points in addition to Colin's hints.
>
>> 1. Is Wifi on the T430 supposed to work? I couldn't get it to do more 
>> than scanning. There are some teensy tiny error messages in the logs, 
>> so if it helps I could get out my magnifier and share them, but if 
>> there's a known issue, I figured y'all would know that without the 
>> specific error message. The wired connection works, so I'm ok with 
>> that as a fallback (but it makes it less mobile).
>
> The Wifi driver on the T430 is expected to work. I'm sometimes running 
> the current version of Sculpt on a T430s.
>
> To investigate the issue, you can browse the log much better in the 
> inspect view [1] by opening /report/log in vim. This also gives to a 
> way to save (and report) the log by copying it to disk.
>
> [1] 
> https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-22-10#Leitzentrale_subsystem
>
>> 2. Persistence - what about persistence? I picked the ram-fs per the 
>> getting started document, but I would like to save SOME stuff- say 
>> bookmarks and source code, how do I do that?
>
> Have you already had a look at [2]? If the documentation leaves some 
> of your questions unanswered, please tell us. So we can improve it.
>
> [2] 
> https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-22-10#Storage_device_access_and_preparation
>
> In short, instead of selecting the RAM file system for "Use", you need 
> to "Use" an ext2 file system on a disk or partition of a USB, AHCI, or 
> NVME device.
>
> If you want to dedicate your T430 to Sculpt without dual booting 
> another OS, the simplest way is to write the downloaded Sculpt disk 
> image directly to the block device using 'dd' on a live Linux. So 
> instead of writing the Sculpt base system to a USB stick, write it 
> directly to disk. You should then be able to boot directly into Sculpt 
> without messing with GRUB.
>
> Once booted into the Sculpt system, follow the "Expand" step described 
> in the link above to extend the Sculpt partition (partition 3) to the 
> full disk size.
>
> Later updates from one Sculpt version to the next can be done by 
> updating the files (image.elf.gz and hypervisor) at the /boot 
> directory of the Sculpt partition.
>
>> 3. I read that the genode folks use Sculpt as their daily drivers - 
>> so I'm guessing they don't boot from USB, build their environment up 
>> from scratch, add in firefox, terminal, whatever and so on, every 
>> day, just to start doing other productive things. Is there somewhere 
>> where typical workflows are described?
>
> In [3], you can find quite a few directions to explore.
>
> [3] 
> https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-22-10#Further_exploration
>
> The first stepping stone is usually to set up a VM with a Linux guest 
> in order to attain a known-good baseline of functionality. Setting up 
> the guest-host integration (like shared folder, shared clipboard) 
> allows for a pretty seamless integration of the guest OS and Genode. 
> Once you feel comfortable with that, you can explore native Genode 
> components (like moving your browsing habits to Genode's Falkon 
> browser) step by step.
>
> I hope you'll enjoy the ride!
>
> Cheers
> Norman
>