NOTE

most of these tools are incomplete, undocumented, old, unmaintained. the only two scripts I have been using and updating are tos-qemu and tos-commit

intro

various tools I glued together for my TempleOS workflow

these are meant for linux but should run fine on most unixes

credits

• fuse red sea implementation by: https://github.com/obecebo/redseafs
• TOSZ written by Terry A. Davis himself

requirements

• rsync (for tos-mirror and tos-export)
• fuse (for isoc-mount)
• python2.7 (for isoc-mount)
• fusepy for python2.7 (for isoc-mount)
• g++ (for TOSZ)
• ffmpeg (to convert screencasts to mp4)
• qemu with kvm support (for the qemu scripts)

on arch linux, you would install these like so:

sudo pacman -S fuse python2 python2-pip rsync g++ ffmpeg
pip2.7 install --user fusepy
sudo modprobe fuse

my scripts assume that the FAT TempleOS partition is mounted at /mnt/tos, so make sure to have an /etc/fstab entry like this:

/dev/sda2 /mnt/tos vfat user,owner,rw,umask=000   0 0

and make sure /mnt/tos exists

mkdir -p /mnt/tos

install

git clone https://github.com/Francesco149/tos-tools
cd tos-tools
g++ TOSZ.CPP -o TOSZ
echo "export PATH=\"\$PATH:$(pwd)\"" >> ~/.bashrc

if you don't use bash, just add the path to your particular shell's profile instead

usage

tos-mirror

this script mounts redsea iso's (often named .ISO.C but sometimes .ISO) which are all the most recent TempleOS ISO's and copies the contents to your TempleOS FAT32 partition.

it automatically excludes .BIN.C files so it doesn't overwrite your bootloader or kernel which would break your install.

this overwrites without prompting, so if you're not sure, run it with --dry-run first to see what it would copy

I use this to install supplemental ISO's and stuff like that without having to burn them

note that this assumes that your TempleOS fat partition is mounted at /mnt/tos . if it isn't, export TOS_MOUNTPOINT in your bashrc to change it

merging the contents of the iso with your root TempleOS directory

tos-mirror TempleOSCDRS.ISO

copying to a specific directory (creates it if it doesn't exist)

tos-mirror TOS_Supplemental1.ISO.C Home/Sup1

checking what files would be copied without actually copying them

tos-mirror TOS_Web.ISO.C --dry-run

after you're done copying everything you can boot into TempleOS and do a

CopyTree("D:/","C:/");

then recompile the kernel and reinstall the bootloader (if you copied any kernel or compiler changes)

BootHDIns('C');

make sure to fill in the correct I/O ports or you will brick your install. I'll eventually write HolyC program to programmatically run BootHDIns and enter pre-configured I/O ports

as a safety measure, you could instead boot into D (the FAT partition), recompile the kernel from there, reboot, see if it still boots and then copy it over to redsea. big kernel changes can cause compile errors due to having to bootstrap new symbols, so be careful when copying over an entirely different version of the OS

this script relies on not having any other RedSea mounts active. if it finds RedSea mounts in /etc/mtab it will try to umount ~/iso and wait until it disappears from mtab.

it also cleans up after itself, so you don't have to umount the iso after it's done

isoc-mount

this is a fuse implementation of the red sea filesystem made by @obecebo . it's used by tos-mirror to mount the iso's

isoc-mount TOS_Supplementals1.ISO.C ~/iso
cd ~/iso
ls

TOSZ

terry's utility to uncompress and convert TempleOS files so they're usable from other OSes

uncompress SomeFile.HC.Z in place, convert non-standard ascii and rename to SomeFile.HC

TOSZ -ascii SomeFile.HC.Z

call ffmpeg to convert MV files and an AU file to a combined MP4 file

TOSZ -mp4 VID%03d.MV AUDIO.AU MOVIE.MP4

tos-export

this assumes you have my TOSToGit program that exports your entire install for consumption on other OSes

this script simply syncs the Wb and Git directories in your TempleOS partition to ~/TempleOSWb and ~/TempleOSGit, taking care to delete any files that have been deleted from the source

this is supposed to be used in conjuction with git to keep track of changes you make

when you're done playing with TempleOS, before booting back into linux you run

CopyTree("C:/","D:/");
FreshenSite;
FreshenBlog;
FreshenGit;

CopyTree is actually just for syncing the two partitions, it's not necessary to run it for the exporting

you can put these commands in a function exported in your home or in a .HC.Z file and #include it to save typing

then once you boot back into linux you would run

tos-export
cd ~/TempleOSGit
git add -u
git commit -m "did some stuff"
git push

or if you need to split changes into smaller commits, just use git add -p

at the moment I don't keep the site on git but you can do the same with it

iso-mount

the non-redsea iso's require some weird mount options to get case sensitive filenames. this is a simple wrapper for mount which passes those params and mounts to /mnt/iso

ignore warning messages about /mnt/iso not being mounted

iso-mount file.ISO

tos-qemu

creates and runs a qemu virtual machine for a TempleOS iso. works all the way back to LoseThos 7.06 (LTCD_2011-09-24T18:53:22.ISO 3f03b65275d867617fa1ef36535e6399adc2a2bd)

I use this to install and archive historical versions of TempleOS

tos-qemu TOS_Distro.ISO

this does a few things:

• renames the .iso by removing characters unsupported by qemu like :
• creates a qcow2 virtual disk at /.iso.qcow2 if it doesn't exist
• if it's the first boot, it mounts the iso, otherwise it boots from disk
• if it's NOT the first boot, it first mounts the vm's image to ~/vmtos, copies all files in ~/.tosfiles to the second partition and umounts it. then it finally boots. note that this assumes that your 2nd partition in the vm is FAT32. if ~/.tosfiles doesn't exist this step is skipped

the script is configured to give 2 gigs of ram and 4 cores to the vm's, as well as 500MB of disk space. edit the script if you need to change these

for versions of TempleOS/LoseThos that didn't officially support qemu, you can just use the I/O ports for the automatically probed ata and it will work

there's also a mode where it only mounts or unmounts the virtual drive:

tos-qemu TOS_Distro.ISO mount
tos-qemu TOS_Distro.ISO umount

only works if the virtual machine has already beenc created