CloverOS GNU/Linux for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WIP)

This is a fork of Microsoft's WSL Distro Launcher for use with CloverOS GNU/Linux.

Requirements

• Internet

• An already working WSL instance

  This is for running the two .sh scripts as they depend on Linux (and chroot especially) . If you want you can use other Linux environemts like MinGW and Cygwin to run the scripts.

• Windows 10 (for using WSL and running/building the launcher)

• Visual Studio (for building the launcher)

Included Scripts

make_cloveros_distro.sh - Makes the root filesystem tarball of CloverOS. This will be the equivalent of a stage3 Gentoo image

setup.sh - The script that runs upon startup of the WSL instance once only and finishes setting up everything including programs, wallpapers, Portage configuration and everything else equivalent to a minimal installation of CloverOS

clean.sh - Clean up and remove output left by the scripts.

build.bat - makes the "distro launcher" appx. TODO: Make it work on Visual Studio 2019

Instructions

Make a copy of this repository

git clone https://github.com/zamiur/cloverwsl.git

Run the make_cloveros_distro.sh script to generate the distro.tar.gz. Then after that, move the archive to the root of the project file

Generate a test certificate:

1. In Visual Studio, open DistroLauncher-Appx/MyDistro.appxmanifest
2. Select the Packaging tab
3. Select "Choose Certificate"
4. Click the Configure Certificate drop down and select Create test certificate.

Commands

cloveros.exe

Launches the user's default shell in the user's home directory.

cloveros.exe install [--root]

• Install the distribution and do not launch the shell when complete.
  • --root: Do not create a user account and leave the default user set to root.

cloveros.exe run <command line>

• Run the provided command line in the current working directory. If no command line is provided, the default shell is launched.
• Everything after run is passed to WslLaunchInteractive.

cloveros.exe config [setting [value]]

• Configure settings for this distribution.
• Settings:
  • --default-user <username>: Sets the default user to . This must be an existing user.

cloveros.exe help

• Print usage information.

Known Issues

make_cloveros_distro.sh

• tar: ./dev/<device_name>: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted

License

See here

Help

Would be greatly appreciated! I'm not working on this full time and also I am pretty new to shell scripting. Also there's a lot of things I have to fix with the make_cloveros_distro.sh script.

External Resources

Creating a Custom Linux Distro for WSL

CloverOS GNU/Linux