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SteamOS: It's here!

By Marlamin on December 13, 2013

Read our updated blog post about SteamOS here.

Keep in mind that we are not affiliated with Valve!

It's here! SteamOS was just pushed to the official repository.

Check yesterday's blog post for more on SteamOS. Keep in mind that it was written before today's release.

  • Use the official HTTP link or the unofficial torrent (thanks Ac-town!) to download the 960 MB installer
    Compare checksums to the ones provided by Valve before installing files downloaded from third parties: MD5 / SHA512
  • READ THE OFFICIAL GUIDE BEFORE INSTALLING UNLESS YOU WANT AN EXPENSIVE METAL BRICK
  • Official site
  • Official FAQ
  • Official wallpapers: #1, #2 and #3
  • GitHub issue tracker
  • Music & TV/Movies do not seem to be in this build
  • Family options are in beta (screenshot in Big Picture)
  • SteamOS EULA (screenshot in Big Picture)
  • Repository findings:
    • SteamOS is based on Debian 7.1 Wheezy
    • List of installed packages available here
    • There is a desktop environment. Gnome.

We'll have a more extensive post up in the next few days.

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Comments (174)

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Arrjaan! December 13, 2013 – 23:11:55 UTC

Already downloadable?

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tooly i am king December 13, 2013 – 23:15:37 UTC

Yesss, awesome. Glad to see this happening :D

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Cheeseness December 13, 2013 – 23:15:40 UTC

There's what looks like an official FAQ placeholder as well. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395741989999/

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Grandpa Rick, you are so wise December 13, 2013 – 23:21:39 UTC

The installer appears to be corrupted. Whenever I try to DL it, after ~50 MBs it stops, as if it is done, but I cannot open the archive.

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Phoenix Rising December 13, 2013 – 23:23:42 UTC

Ditto that. The download is choking randomly.

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tooly i am king December 13, 2013 – 23:25:25 UTC

Yup, choking download over here, too. Clever girl.

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Cheesepile December 13, 2013 – 23:26:02 UTC

Same >.<

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[SH] nicereddy December 13, 2013 – 23:26:23 UTC

Based on the list of packages can we tell if it's capable of doing anything non-gaming? i.e. it actually has a desktop and can be used for browsing the internet, word documents, etc.

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Slynch December 13, 2013 – 23:27:04 UTC

Using JDownloader to resume the download. Bandwidth gone from 700kb/s to 70 in UK. Same here with the choking. Garararghh.

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cyka December 13, 2013 – 23:27:31 UTC

let me download ittttttttttttttttttttttttttt

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Reflekz December 13, 2013 – 23:27:55 UTC

Don't know, but there's a lot of Gnome entries, so it looks you'll be able to use desktop. Or am I a linux fool?

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Carolus December 13, 2013 – 23:28:50 UTC

Yes, it has a desktop environment. Gnome is mentioned in the package list. We can also tell that it uses the GDM (Gnome Display Manager) for login. Previous screenshots of the OS have pointed toward an option of enabling the desktop environment via the SteamOS settings.

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Juice December 13, 2013 – 23:28:59 UTC

Yup has all the packages for gnome desktop.

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Slynch December 13, 2013 – 23:30:36 UTC

Well, I guess I'm waiting till all you States-fellows are asleep to download me some Steamy OS goodness.

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Arrjaan! December 13, 2013 – 23:31:13 UTC

Use DownThemAll! for Firefox to resume your download automatically.

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Science! December 13, 2013 – 23:31:39 UTC

JDownloader will resume the download from the last previous connection on Windows. For Linux users, wget will do the same. Currently 117MB in and downloading at ~200KB/s. Hopefully it'll work when it's done.

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Phoenix Rising December 13, 2013 – 23:32:49 UTC

Sweet. It has Grub ;)

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Carolus December 13, 2013 – 23:34:09 UTC

Or just use wget from a linux/BSD machine command line.

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Kota December 13, 2013 – 23:41:21 UTC

Anyone finish downloading?

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MaerF0x0 December 13, 2013 – 23:42:05 UTC

WTH didnt they use torrents for this?

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malkia December 13, 2013 – 23:44:06 UTC

As other's suggested use wget or curl, and it'll finish.

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elad December 13, 2013 – 23:44:21 UTC

I suspect this list might not actually be the list of packages installed by default. Installing both ATI and NVIDIA nonfree drivers at the same time is problematic, and having both grub and syslinux at the same time makes no sense whatsoever.

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[SH] nicereddy December 13, 2013 – 23:45:08 UTC

This isn't technically the official download (yet) since they haven't posted it anywhere, they may include links to torrents once they officially release it.

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wickedplayer494 December 13, 2013 – 23:45:45 UTC

As seen on The Verge! http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/13/5207426/valve-steamos-now-available

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PowerMugen December 13, 2013 – 23:46:51 UTC

If you can't download the file you can try adding it in a download manager. It'll not drop anymore.

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Cosmo December 13, 2013 – 23:49:37 UTC

Some people don't seem to realise that some ISPs actively attempt to block torrenting, it's not nearly as accessible as CDNs are. Unfortunately, it appears that Valve are not using a large enough (if any) CDN in this case, but still.

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Metalic Weasel December 13, 2013 – 23:53:32 UTC

Ohh... c'mon... where's the .torrent?

trying to download trought wget. ted: 5h

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[ARCH LINUX] cRaZy-bisCuiT December 13, 2013 – 23:54:01 UTC

Is there anyone who has successfully downloaded the OS?

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Cosmo December 14, 2013 – 00:00:23 UTC

Everyone needs to calm down and slow down, at this rate the bottleneck will go on for days! 90% of people (myself included) need to wait, and when some people have finished some more can start, when the bottleneck returns, 90% drop out, etc.

I don't know that there is a fair way to choose who will get first dibs, but it doesn't really matter, because if you worry about fairness or turns in this too much, we'll just keep the bottleneck =.=

//I realise people are unlikely to listen.

@conner, yes, I'm afraid it is, the FAQ post on Steam Universe forums has been updated to include it.

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tomtomme December 14, 2013 – 00:01:48 UTC

wget -c is working, but only at 70 KB/s - and it is constantly closing and reopening the connection reducing the mean download speed even further. ETA is now 3 hours..... I guess I´ll have to go to bed and try tomorrow...

For your information: Somewhere on http://repo.steamstatic.com/steamos/ I downloaded an interesting file named alchemist.log. It shows what packages were added and removed to the repo over the last months. They already even experimented with stuff like systemd, KDE, vlc and other media-playback things. I think they will extend SteamOS package by package over time, so that they can handle the maintenance needed to keep it really stable. Otherwise they would have gone for debian-testing (aka Jessie or Debian 8.0) like ubuntu lts.

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[-44-]PendragonUK December 14, 2013 – 00:04:28 UTC

Have Valve not heard of bittorrent! FFS!

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Marlamin [S] [DEV] December 14, 2013 – 00:06:05 UTC

Use http://repo.steampowered.com/download/SteamOSInstaller.zip to download it. The old URL is NOT CDN'd so will be very unstable. Thanks!

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[SH] nicereddy December 14, 2013 – 00:06:39 UTC

In the newest client beta they changed the UI of the settings, not the most pressing issue at the moment but I figured I'd mention it.

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Cosmo December 14, 2013 – 00:09:56 UTC

See? Now it's CDNed, it'll be fiine xD

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voltagex December 14, 2013 – 00:15:42 UTC

How about adding the web URL to the back of the magnet link?

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Grandpa Rick, you are so wise December 14, 2013 – 00:16:29 UTC

Anyone who has a complete download... start a torrent please :D

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tomtomme December 14, 2013 – 00:17:17 UTC

Yeah :) now its downloading faster and faster! Between 200 and 600 KB/s now and without hickups

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nelsk December 14, 2013 – 00:17:43 UTC

Should throw this up in a torrent.

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tomtomme December 14, 2013 – 00:19:12 UTC

You should not be pleased to early... server stopped the download. Now go for torrent, the link is at the blog post now

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» Magic « ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ December 14, 2013 – 00:19:31 UTC

Downloaded through torrent and now seeding! guys, the magnet link is up top :)

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tomtomme December 14, 2013 – 00:20:53 UTC

3 MiB/s - nice :) Torrent is soooo good. Seeding as fast as I can too!

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tomtomme December 14, 2013 – 00:24:05 UTC

The FAQs are online!

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tomtomme December 14, 2013 – 00:26:00 UTC

fuck - at the moment its nvidia-only (I´ll have to throw my old gtx260 in to test it...)

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varg666 December 14, 2013 – 00:26:22 UTC

The torrent link is not working for me. :(

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Cosmo December 14, 2013 – 00:29:26 UTC

If only I had enough bandwidth to be torrenting (If I seed I'll likely get my dataspeed capped before I can finish it, that is if I can torrent it at all which is unlikely)

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Kobe December 14, 2013 – 00:32:52 UTC

Use torrent guys! :)

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SmilingDevil December 14, 2013 – 00:36:19 UTC

I just got it mirrored, MD5 valid and all, server running on a gigabit line.

http://devil.io/SteamOSInstaller.zip

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[ARCH LINUX] cRaZy-bisCuiT December 14, 2013 – 00:37:22 UTC

Hey people, any chance to use this with NO nVidia card and NO Uefi? They say it's required atm. I either have nVidia but no UEFI or UEFI but no nVidia-PC. :(

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^Xeno December 14, 2013 – 00:39:39 UTC

100% downloaded in little to no time at all, will leave pc on overnight to seed a modest 2.5MB/s upload. Enjoy folks :)

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disuse December 14, 2013 – 00:40:08 UTC

Yay! It's happening!

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przemal December 14, 2013 – 00:41:50 UTC

Try different torrent client, couldn't download it in ktorrent but in qbittorrent it started immediately.

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Cosmo December 14, 2013 – 00:42:59 UTC

From the FAQ it sounds like the installer doesn't have the option for installing to an external hard drive, can anyone verify this?

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[SWE] Birdstream {Linux} December 14, 2013 – 00:44:13 UTC

DL:ing now.

But come on, Valve. ZIP?? tar.gz ffs ;)

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El Calhau December 14, 2013 – 00:45:54 UTC

http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/ the official site is up

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Joe December 14, 2013 – 00:49:33 UTC

I get good speed when downloading the torrent. 1,6 MB/s Download and 1,5 MB/s Upload. I'll keep seeding!

Edit: Done downloading, going to install this badboy now!

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Evilman December 14, 2013 – 00:52:06 UTC

Seeding atm: 11MB/s :D I'll keep seeding too...

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craBBs* December 14, 2013 – 00:56:49 UTC

Seeding wide open from my 1Gbp/s server, enjoy guys! :D

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Joe December 14, 2013 – 00:59:01 UTC

@L'appel du vide We need more people like you!

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Scientist Dog December 14, 2013 – 00:59:28 UTC

It seems the file to install as default is SYSRESTORE.zip, which is about 2.5GB

http://repo.steampowered.com/download/SYSRESTORE.zip

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Marlamin [S] [DEV] December 14, 2013 – 01:00:40 UTC

Thanks for seeding, guys!

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Kronos December 14, 2013 – 01:01:18 UTC

Mirror on a 1 Gb/s server (http direct) : http://icp.re/SteamOSInstaller.zip

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eXp'Assien December 14, 2013 – 01:18:56 UTC

How does this OS really works? Does it support Windows games?

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[ARCH LINUX] cRaZy-bisCuiT December 14, 2013 – 01:28:06 UTC

In the end it's nothing more than debian + drivers + steam big picture, isn't it? ;)

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Cosmo December 14, 2013 – 01:32:44 UTC

Well I'm going to be a gusty mofo and install this onto a laptop with only an integrated Intel GPU //yolo.

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The Winter Soldier December 14, 2013 – 01:33:47 UTC

As of now, mostly. its mainly just steam's big picture without windows or mac.

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Krawser December 14, 2013 – 01:34:00 UTC

Someone can put the SYSRESTORE.zip into a torrent please?

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Garabir December 14, 2013 – 01:40:24 UTC

What is the difference between SYSRESTORE or SteamOSInstaller?

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eXp'Assien December 14, 2013 – 01:42:30 UTC

How do I install this?

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Cosmo December 14, 2013 – 01:42:58 UTC

@garabir one is a system image, which will basically just print out a clone the hard drive of a successful installation by valve, the other will install it anew. That's a poor explanation, but roughly it's like that.

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Garabir December 14, 2013 – 01:47:34 UTC

@Cosmo I'm a little bit confuse. I'm trying to install on VirtualBox, i have to use SYSRESTORE or SteamOSInstaller?

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computerfreak[MiT] December 14, 2013 – 01:48:15 UTC

Another HTTP mirror (VPS in TX): http://static.nickproductions.com/SteamOSInstaller.zip Not sure how well it's going to hold up, but every little bit counts!

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=[LSS]= OmegaNemesis28 December 14, 2013 – 01:53:01 UTC

Hey guys there are TWO different SteamOSInstaller.zip versions. Which is silly. http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

There is the default and the custom. The default uses SYSRESTORE and the custom is a bootable package. Can anyone provide a mirror to the custom? I'm not fond of the SYSRESTORE method.

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computerfreak[MiT] December 14, 2013 – 01:55:50 UTC

Any of the mirrors so far posted (SteamOSInstaller.zip) are the "custom" method. I haven't seen a SYSRESTORE torrent yet, and, because the CDN is not doing too well, I can't get a complete copy to mirror/seed.

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=[LSS]= OmegaNemesis28 December 14, 2013 – 01:56:59 UTC

Really? Odd I cant get it to boot off a USB. I format it FAT32, put the files right on there, can't boot. I even tried to do a YUMI stick and tried making it think it was a normal Debian install. Any recommendation?

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computerfreak[MiT] December 14, 2013 – 02:00:31 UTC

As per the FAQ, did you select the UEFI entry when booting? Otherwise not sure what's going on.

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Oevelgone December 14, 2013 – 02:05:03 UTC

@=[LSS]= OmegaNemesis28

Here i made an iso version of SteamOSInstaller.zip so you can install it on an USB. Do not forget to made your usb partition bootable. (Gparted for Linux, Diskpart for Windows)

http://icp.re/SteamOSInstaller.iso

Not tested so if it doesn't work say it, i'll correct it as soon as possible (tomorrow, now i go to bed) and when i get to download SYSRESTORE i'll upload it to.

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acidzedits December 14, 2013 – 02:05:14 UTC

Has anyone got a download link, i think the steam website has crashed

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=[LSS]= OmegaNemesis28 December 14, 2013 – 02:05:33 UTC

Oh man, thats right..... I don't have UEFI on all 3 of my machines. My AMD6990 gaming rig is so last generation now I guess....... Well, that blows.

@Ovelgone - thanks for that! Sadly I'm still screwed, but I will pass on your link to others for sure.

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computerfreak[MiT] December 14, 2013 – 02:13:00 UTC

@acidzedits For SteamOSInstaller.zip or for SYSRESTORE.zip? Look at the top for SteamOSInstaller. I'll be mirroring SYSRESTORE here in just a bit.

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Oevelgone December 14, 2013 – 02:29:36 UTC

Here i remade the linking map of my mirror. ENJOY ;) :

http://steamos.ic-project.fr/

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Charlie December 14, 2013 – 02:30:26 UTC

Here's a torrent for the 2.4G SYSRESTORE.zip

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:F8DB9D0E7342EA9C0F60E9FB24DA29F62512A4D5&dn=sysrestore+zip&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337
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computerfreak[MiT] December 14, 2013 – 02:34:14 UTC

Downloading and seeding SYSRESTORE. Thanks Charlie!

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Lucid00 December 14, 2013 – 02:35:15 UTC

Waiting to hear of a WINE port to this (and for that music app).

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Charlie December 14, 2013 – 02:36:12 UTC

No problem, it took me WAY too long to get it via HTTP :-x

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computerfreak[MiT] December 14, 2013 – 02:40:34 UTC

Same. The CDN seems to be getting back to norm, but this should help tremendously. Right now going 7.5MB/s up on my VPS.

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Oevelgone December 14, 2013 – 02:53:49 UTC

GOTCHA 'EM ALL!

So "SteamOSInstaller" and "SYSRESTORE" are available on my mirror (HTTP) :

http://steamos.ic-project.fr/

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Garabir December 14, 2013 – 02:54:15 UTC

@Oevelgone your .iso is bootable?

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Oevelgone December 14, 2013 – 02:57:50 UTC

Didn't test so far sorry :/ but normaly it will work. Only if you set it on an USB stick, set the "boot" flag to partition.

(Have a shitty pc so i can't test)

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computerfreak[MiT] December 14, 2013 – 03:02:13 UTC

I can confirm the SYSRESTORE torrent is valid (md5sum checks out). Also, it is now mirrored on my VPS: http://static.nickproductions.com/SYSRESTORE.zip

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Garabir December 14, 2013 – 03:08:12 UTC

Well, I've give up today. I am no capable to find a usb to iso bootable to work with this system.

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Cosmo December 14, 2013 – 03:14:53 UTC

@garabir, yeah, I'm starting to think that window's formatting software isn't sufficient to set the USBs up correctly

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DKA December 14, 2013 – 03:43:58 UTC

@Oevelgone This is what a got on your .iso: http://i.imgur.com/qKQQbkp.png

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Charlie December 14, 2013 – 03:52:54 UTC

I just imaged a 1TB drive, clonezilla loads and images successfully. Upon reboot, it loads grub and dumps me to a prompt. UEFI is on, not sure what the deal is.

Trying the installer next, I guess.

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StevoLime December 14, 2013 – 04:13:38 UTC

Anyone get SteamOS installed in VirtualBox? I have gotten to installing it, but the installer is stalling on check for the CD drive at the moment.

If anyone is wondering how to get the installer to load in VirtualBox without a USB. In Windows Vista and up, open up the Windows Disk Manager and create a Virtual Hard Disk, set it up with Fat and transfer the files to it. Detach it in Disk Manager and set it up to the Virtual Machine in the storage settings on VirtualBox and enable EFI under the system settings for the Virtual Machine. It should boot up to the installer.

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Plainview December 14, 2013 – 04:15:43 UTC

installing on a dell latitude with a corei7 an nvidia gpu. hanging at "Detect network hardware"

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 04:59:10 UTC

Have the installer booting in VMWare Workstation but it also gets hung up attempting to look for cdrom device.

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alexander.r December 14, 2013 – 05:00:24 UTC

CD check works only if you use ISO image. Virtual hard drive makes installer confused (not that hard drives are commonly used for bootstrapping OS..) So far I managed to finish install in VirtualBox and reach Grub boot dialog. Seems, like drivers are indeed messed up.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:03:54 UTC

If this is expected to boot from a USB drive, then I fail to see why the installer would even be attempting to check cdrom.

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Scientist Dog December 14, 2013 – 05:09:04 UTC

@Oevelgone: It looks very different from the ZIP http://www.imagebam.com/image/b61006294877313

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 05:12:30 UTC

you can get it installed in VMware workstation but you need to use uefi. only way i got it to work so far is to use a macOS VM 1) install http://www.sysprobs.com/vmware-workstation-8-0-8-0-1-unlocker-to-run-mac-os-x-guest-in-windows-7 2) create macos 10.9 VM 3) extract contents of SteamOSInstaller.zip to FAT32 Formatted USB stick 4)boot the VM, attach the USB and spam DEL to get the boot menu, or it may just pick it up and boot.

I tried making a normal debian VM and adding firmware="efi" in the vmx and it boots but during install it overwrites the USB key I am using to install.

Not much to do though steam will not even launch. I am trying to build the 3d drivers but there are some dependency issues, maybe someone with more linux skills them me can get it done http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:20:07 UTC

Very odd installer environment. If I ALT+F2 to a console and check out /dev I can see that it detects my /dev/sda1 and even sees the drive label. However, if I try to manually mount the drive anywhere, I get a "No such file or directory". Very strange...

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:35:09 UTC

I managed to get it installed very smoothly on VMWare.

  1. Use the firmware="efi" setting.
  2. Create the primary 500GB hard disk to SATA 0:0.
  3. Create a small 4GB hard disk attached to SATA 2:0 which contains the SteamOSInstaller contents.
  4. Create an ISO image loaded to CDROM drive attached to SATA 1:0. The ISO contains the same exact SteamOSInstaller contents as the 4G hard disk.

Clearly, this could be optimized to simply use either the ISO or the 4GB hard disk, but this appears to get by the cdrom mounting problem in a completely automated fashion. Absolutely no errors during installation.

Booted right up with ZERO errors that I can see!

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:37:58 UTC

Okay, so I'm at the GDM login screen. Totally graphical so I can tell video is at least somewhat working. Problem now is that this is a typical GDM login with several options:

  • Default XSession
  • GNOME
  • GNOME Classic
  • SteamOS

Any way you slice it, I still need the username and password!

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:40:22 UTC

I was able to log in with "steam" account but the GUI appears to have hung after login. I can, however, ALT out to a terminal and log into a console with the same accounts. At least at a base level, this is installed.

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_august December 14, 2013 – 05:45:44 UTC

anyone try this on VirtualBox? can't get it to boot to the installer

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:47:46 UTC

Since this is debian-based, I was able to mount and install the vmware-tools for a Debian 7.x system. Seemed to go very smoothly. Both GCC and kernel headers are available in the install.

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 05:49:41 UTC

anyone know how to fix this dependency issue? up and running in workstation with VMware tools installed and trying to get the 3d drivers built

desktop@steamos:~$ sudo apt-get install automake libtool Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done automake is already the newest version. Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libtool : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or

                libc-dev
       Recommends: libltdl-dev but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. desktop@steamos:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev : Depends: libc6 (= 2.13-38) but 2.17-7+steamos1+bsos1 is to be installed

         Depends: libc-dev-bin (= 2.13-38)

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. desktop@steamos:~$

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:49:48 UTC

I was able to reboot and log in with "desktop" user and GNOME shell. Works perfectly fine in VMWare. Wish I could post images!

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ayocaine December 14, 2013 – 05:49:55 UTC

@robross0606 try logging in with the account desktop/desktop

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ayocaine December 14, 2013 – 05:50:54 UTC

& does the main virtual disk NEED to be 500gb? that's a little crazy..

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 05:56:45 UTC

Already well past login problem. I have root access at this point and graphical desktop. The next step is 3D acceleration which is no doubt necessary to launch the SteamOS portion.

@kyle.hogan My guess here is that the source.list under /etc/apt/ is locked down to Steam's Alchemist repository which may not include the package dependencies you need. Since this is Debian, we could probably add repositories to the list to source those dependencies.

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 06:03:21 UTC

i have added these repositories, but i am still getting stuck, any others I should add?

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main contrib non-free

I actually had commented out the original steam ones, and when i commented and updated I got one step further. Seems we need to replace some of the steam specific stuff but I am not sure how to.

desktop@steamos:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libx11-xcb-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libx11-xcb-dev : Depends: libx11-xcb1 (= 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1) but 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1+bsos2 is to be installed

              Depends: libxcb1-dev (>= 0.9.92) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libx11-dev but it is not going to be installed

xserver-xorg-dev : Depends: libpixman-1-dev (>= 0.21.8) but it is not going to be installed

                Depends: libxkbfile-dev but it is not going to be installed
                Depends: libpciaccess-dev but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

desktop@steamos:~$ sudo apt-get install libpciaccess-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libpciaccess-dev : Depends: libpciaccess0 (= 0.13.1-2) but 0.13.1-2+bsos3 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. desktop@steamos:~$

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 06:05:31 UTC

@kyle.hogan. Add this temporarily to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy main

deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-updates main

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

Make sure you comment them out once your done. We don't want to accidentally muck with SteamOS's auto-update processes.

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 06:16:43 UTC

@robross0606 I had these added except the last security ones, I added them but it did not make a difference.

I think the main problem is this

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libpciaccess-dev : Depends: libpciaccess0 (= 0.13.1-2) but 0.13.1-2+bsos3 is to be installed

do we need to replace libpciaccess0 0.13.1-2+bsos3 or maybe do some additional compiling?

check out the instructions if you have not already, this is what you need to get 3d hardware acceleration and full gnome desktop http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 06:27:24 UTC

I have not run into the same problem. I was able to add those items (exactly as I have above). I was able to apt-get install both automake and libtool without issue. Make sure after you add those items you do an 'apt-get update' to update repository cache before attempting to do an 'apt-get install'. The only place I've run into a problem similar to yours was in attempting to install vim. However, I did also install mesa-utils and ran a test with glxinfo and glxgears. I appear to have fully functional OpenGL in VMWare using the VMWare Tools driver.

However, even with all this, if I attempt to start SteamOS instead of desktop mode, the whole thing hangs up.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 06:28:44 UTC

Sorry, I missed where you were trying to install xserver stuff. I have absolutely no doubt that this would conflict with existing SteamOS stuff. What exactly are you trying to compile?

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 06:32:53 UTC

As I mentioned in my previous post. Here's where I'm at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_DBE_oe7C69ZG1JT2RmWmRhMFk/edit?usp=sharing

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 06:33:58 UTC

Trying to build the VMware 3d driver. I have done it before but in ubuntu like the page explains. With this you can get proper 3d acceleration in the VM. I think it does not work because there are some packages we would need that are not on the steam repository and the plain debian ones are not compatible.

Check the page out for more info, here is a snip

"This page describes how to build, install and use the VMware guest GL driver (aka the SVGA or SVGA3D driver) for Linux using the latest source code. This driver gives a Linux virtual machine access to the host's GPU for hardware-accelerated 3D. VMware Workstation running on Linux or Windows and VMware Fusion running on MacOS are all supported."

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 06:36:24 UTC

You don't need to do any of that. The 3D Accelerated driver is installed as part of the vmware-tools package. Simply mount the vmware-tools package, pull over the TAR file. Expand it and run the tools from ALT+F2 terminal. I already have OpenGL acceleration in my vm as indicated by functional glxgears and glxinfo commands provided through mesa-tools.

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 06:45:56 UTC

I don't think you have full 3D acceleration. if you did you should get the full Gnome 3 desktop. Were you able to launch steam and accept the EULA?

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Science! December 14, 2013 – 06:47:45 UTC

@robross0606: I attempted your instructions on how to set this up in VMware, but despite what I do I can't get it to boot from either an iso, flash drive, or other storage medium. I get this: http://i.imgur.com/mzLf2q2.png Any ideas? Am I missing something?

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 06:53:08 UTC

@kyle.hogan: I definitely have OpenGL 3D support. glxgears would not run at smooth framerates without 3D support. I've even played a round of gltron to be sure. Framerates are nice and smooth. However, I did notice that sound drivers are not working at all. No detection in the OS at all. When I try to launch SteamOS portion, however, the whole VM appears to freeze up. Can't find any errors or indicate of a problem in anything under /var/log yet. What do you mean by "full Gnome 3 desktop"? Have you looked at my screenshot link?

@Hipster Elizabeth: Hit F2 during boot to get into menu system. You're just hanging up on the network boot option. You can let eventually time out on the network portion or use the F2 option to disable network boot option.

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Science! December 14, 2013 – 06:57:55 UTC

@robross0606 If I let it sit and wait for the network boot to time out, it brings me into the settings. Disabling network boot gives the same result (just much faster).

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 07:02:40 UTC

I mean the 3d gnome desktop, like in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAQWAAhFw88 at least when I launched my VM i got a message that GNOME3 failed to launch.

I believe you are using software acceleration. see your glxinfo output. when you have hardware acceleration you will see this

OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0

see your output on llvmpipe http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html

"The Gallium llvmpipe driver is a software rasterizer that uses LLVM to do runtime code generation. Shaders, point/line/triangle rasterization and vertex processing are implemented with LLVM IR which is translated to x86 or x86-64 machine code. Also, the driver is multithreaded to take advantage of multiple CPU cores (up to 8 at this time). It's the fastest software rasterizer for Mesa."

Install something new like Fedora 18 or Ubuntu 12.10 and they include everything needed

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 07:05:29 UTC

@kyle.hogan. I see you're point. Was looking through my XOrg log file and found the line about the VMWare driver being compiled without KMS and 3D support. Figures they would use Debian as the foundation instead of Ubuntu where the drivers are fine! I'm assuming you're trying to follow this:

http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html

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notorious December 14, 2013 – 07:09:00 UTC

@robross0606

Could you elaborate a bit more on these steps:

  1. Create a small 4GB hard disk attached to SATA 2:0 which contains the SteamOSInstaller contents.

Did you create a hard drive in another os to write out the SteamOSInstaller.zip files and just mount it in the new SteamOS vm?

  1. Create an ISO image loaded to CDROM drive attached to SATA 1:0. The ISO contains the same exact SteamOSInstaller contents as the 4G hard disk.

What process did you use to make an ISO from the ZIP file? I'm using Mac OS, so I coped the ZIP contents to a USB stick and made a master cd copy in Disc Utility. I'm mounting that in VMWare, but it's not booting for me.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 07:12:53 UTC

Okay, steps I used to create the 4GB drive:

  1. Create the 4GB virtual drive.
  2. Attach a partedmagic bootable ISO to the virtual CD Drive. Boot PartedMagic and format the 4GB drive with FAT32 partition.
  3. Shut down the VM and then use VMWare to map the virtual drive as a live disk on the host system (not read only).
  4. Drag all the SteamOSInstaller files over to the mounted drive.
  5. Force unmap the drive from the host system. You now have a 4GB FAT32 drive with all the files in it.

I used UltraISO to create an ISO file containing all the files.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 07:14:52 UTC

@notorious: VMWare will not boot from a CD simply containing the files because the CD is most likely not FAT32. Bootability is... complicated. I haven't really spent the time to work it all out correctly, which is why I muddled through using basically two copies of the same data at the same time: the FAT32 drive for boot and the CD ISO for auto-installation.

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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 07:18:18 UTC

@robross0606 yes that's what I am trying to follow. I have done it on older versions of Ubuntu, now its all included in the OS so you dont have to do anything but we are not that lucky with steamOS.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 07:25:11 UTC

Yes, I recall patching this a while back on a previous version of Debian. Looks like this pay have been fixed in Debian 7.2:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675977#92

Wonder if we could just pull that package out of the Debian FTP archive and install on this version?

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Science! December 14, 2013 – 07:28:53 UTC

@robross0606: Those steps fixed it up for me. Seems Windows' formatting utility just can't do the job right, yet again. Thanks a lot for your help.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 07:43:47 UTC

I tried adding the "unstable" repository to apt and updating vmware driver to 7.2 version. A ton of other changes came along with that so it borked my whole install. Thankfully, I'm not stupid and took a snapshot just prior to the update. Reverted back but PSA to anyone who is trying this with VMWare player.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 07:56:52 UTC

Progress!

  • Downloaded the "accepted" driver update at http://mirror.nus.edu.sg/Debian/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-video-vmware/
  • Downloaded dependency at http://packages.debian.org/hu/sid/amd64/libffi6/download

    dpkg -i [libffi6].deb apt-get install libxatracker1 dpkg -i [vmware driver].deb

Reboot and TA DA!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_DBE_oe7C69WlhKUUlpaUx3bnM/edit?usp=sharing

So even though I definitely have full 3D accelerated rendering and not "fallback" Gnome anymore, I still have two issues:

  1. No sound.
  2. Starting SteamOS portion still freezes up the system.
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kyle.hogan December 14, 2013 – 08:05:59 UTC

nice work! for sound you can try 2 different sound devices maybe one will work if the other does not, or you may need drivers for that also:

RealTek ALC888 7.1 Channel High Definition Audio Codec

sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"

Sound Blaster AudioPCI

sound.virtualDev = "es1371"

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 08:14:13 UTC

The audio device is recognized at the lower level. Even alsa shows it fine. Just missing from Gnome for some reason.

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MujiXx Unleashed December 14, 2013 – 08:40:48 UTC

I was having issues at the cd-rom part. how can i mount the iso image so that it may get all the drivers and files it needs?

by the way, im trying this on my laptop, not on a virtual machine

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Severus December 14, 2013 – 10:28:52 UTC

Problem in VMware 10:

I cannot install SteamOS! I'm going the "steamOSInstaller.zip-way" ... It is not booting. I followed the steps, robross0606 provided, but it won't boot; neither from CD-image, nor from the 4GB HDD ... something i oversaw?

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Science! December 14, 2013 – 10:33:38 UTC

What sort of problems do you get when you try to boot?

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Hellfire27 December 14, 2013 – 10:38:28 UTC

I have been partially successful in getting SteamOS to run in VirtualBox. Follow the steps robross0606 outlined to install (be sure to enable EFI). Instead of creating an ISO you can just enable USB support in VirtualBox and throw all the SteamOSInstaller files on a flash drive instead.

Run the install; it may not detect the USB drive right away during the cdrom check so just keep trying.

When the install is complete reboot. If you hit the installer again remove the extra vhd/usb drive. If you hit the EFI shell then just type exit, then select Boot Maintenance Manager, and then Boot From File. The grubx64.efi file should be easy to find.

When it finally boots go into recovery model. Then do a sudo su, change the root password with passwd. Now type exit twice and it should dump you into the a gui. Login in as steam with the password steam. If the gui doesn't show up the first time try disabling 3d acceleration for now and enable it again later.

gnome3 will fail but you will be in fallback mode. Steam doesn't work yet but you should try to launch it anyway. At this point I added repositories, sudoers for desktop and steam users, and tried to install Virtual Additions which failed. After this I was able to reboot, boot from efi file again, and login right in to the gui without recovery console. Can't seem to find the right dependencies for build-essential or module-assistant, next steps seems to be getting Virtual Additions installed correctly. Will look at it tomorrow.

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mattPiratt December 14, 2013 – 11:19:45 UTC

I got it on VirtualBOX. Just use this guide https://gist.github.com/voltagex/7955961

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Oevelgone December 14, 2013 – 12:30:56 UTC

Hello everyone i remade my iso file it's now valid :

http://steamos.ic-project.fr/

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Severus December 14, 2013 – 15:56:28 UTC

It skips the HDD and CDROM-drives in the boot order, though I arranged them on top!

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 16:42:14 UTC

@Severus: Then it most likely doesn't see anything on those drives that is "bootable"

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blu132 December 14, 2013 – 17:32:10 UTC

No download problems with a torrent client. Go get one! It's much more social than draining the mirrors' band width anyway.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 17:42:33 UTC

So been doing some more debugging of the SteamOS "mode" this morning. Turns out the whole VM doesn't hang -- only the display manager (lightdm) appears to hang up. I was able to install ssh and have several open terminals monitoring log files on clicking the "Return to Steam" icon. Everything remains active and there's a few avenues of investigation to go down. Good news is all I had to do was restart the lightdm service from a console and the desktop popped back up. There's no need to hard reboot the VM.

Still having problems with sound VMWare as well.

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Scientist Dog December 14, 2013 – 17:53:21 UTC

Anyone tried SteamOS with AMD graphics hardware?

I've just installed (custom install) on my A8-3850 with an Radeon HD6550D.

The setup finished without any problem, and the first boot was also OK, logged in with GNOME, but after I run the "post-install customizations", I restarted and now I only get a black screen after the Steam logo dissapears.

If a press the power button, I can see some "colour flash", and the system shut down properly. I suppose is related to the graphics drivers.

Any solution?

PS: I can access to the terminal with Crtl+Alt+F5. I've tried this, but is still not working: "sudo aticonfig --initial -f", then "sudo reboot"

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 18:57:23 UTC

@Scientist Dog: The minimum system requirements call out that SteamOS only supports NVidia graphics right now. You may be able to inject your own AMD graphics drivers but, then again, you may not. Have you examined XOrg.0.log to see if AMD graphics are even being activated during XSession startup?

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 20:12:17 UTC

Sound is now working in VMWare. I switched the VMX config to use hdaudio (thanks @kyle.hogan):

sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"

and, the most important step, was to delete all '~.pulse* ' in both the desktop and steam user directories. Once this was done, I edited /etc/pulse/client.conf to add this:

autospawn = no

After a reboot, sound through pulseaudio appears to be working fine.

Sadly, even with all that work, what I'm left with is a mostly useless GNOME desktop. Steam still does not load and I have not yet found any meaningful log errors to indicate why. :-(

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Arrjaan! December 14, 2013 – 20:15:48 UTC

My screen turns black if I want to install this on my laptop with Intel integrated graphics and NVIDIA dedicated video card. Is there a way to ensure the installer is using the NVIDIA card?

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 20:17:36 UTC

@Arrjaan!: Need way more information. When does it turn black? During boot? During the install process? After installation?

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Arrjaan! December 14, 2013 – 20:58:31 UTC

It turns black after I select expert install in GRUB.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 21:15:52 UTC

@Arrjaan!: I would revisit your installation media. It could be corrupt.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 21:18:35 UTC

So looking at processes after running Steam, looks like all the necessary processes are still running in the background. For some reason, we just can't seen them:

root      2190     1  0 15:58 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/actkbd -D --device /dev/input/event0 --config /etc/actkbd-steamos.conf
steam     5567  5556  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/steamos-session
steam     5591  5567  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session steamos-session
steam     5594     1  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session steamos-session
steam     5596     1  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
steam     5604  5567  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 steamcompmgr
steam     5609     1  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
steam     5616  5567  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 bash /usr/bin/steam -tenfoot -steamos -enableremotecontrol
steam     5633  5616  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 bash /home/steam/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh -tenfoot -steamos -enableremotecontrol
steam     5634  5616  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 tee /tmp/dumps/steam_stdout.txt
steam     5669  5633  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 bash /home/steam/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh -tenfoot -steamos -enableremotecontrol
steam     5670  5669  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 zenity --width 650 --height 500 --text-info --title=Steam Install Agreement --filename=/home/steam/.local/share/Steam/steam_install_agreement.txt --checkbox=I have read and accept these terms.
steam     5675     1  0 15:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
root      9569  9539  0 16:00 pts/1    00:00:00 grep steam

Finally found a log file in /tmp/dumps/steam_stdout.txt which has some errors:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmodeswitch_inhibitor.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Worth investigating...

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xPaw [DEV] December 14, 2013 – 21:53:54 UTC

I edited steamos-session file and removed i386-linux-gnu from LD_PRELOAD line, but that did not fix the black screen. That's probably not enough.

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 21:57:42 UTC

Gentlemen, I am officially working fulling in VMWare. I don't know exactly how to describe how/why it started working, but here is some proof:

  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_DBE_oe7C69M040RXZVR05STUk/edit?usp=sharing
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_DBE_oe7C69U0xhaUFndENyVlk/edit?usp=sharing

Fully 3D accelerated and full sound support. Wish I could take a movie of it, but VMWare Workstation 10 removed the movie recording option.

In any case, the main thing I did was run Steam, let it "hang", ALT+F7 back to GNOME desktop, open a terminal and run the killallsteam.sh script. When I did that, it suddenly popped up with the license agreement confirmation and then updated Steam. From that point, I was able to run Steam in a window and then switch to "big picture mode" which is essentially all SteamOS does when you log in as Steam.

Success!!!

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Danailed December 14, 2013 – 22:10:28 UTC

Arrjaan! I have exactly the same problem. I am using an Asus laptop with an integrated Intel GPU on my CPU and a dedicated nvidia GPU.... No matter what I select as the installation option, whether automatic, expert or recovery, my screen turns to a black backlit display and it hangs there. I have tried installing it on my laptop hard drive on my desktop with the same media and it works fine, when i put the hard drive back in to my laptop, the boot sector is missing. I am currently in the process of upgrading my BIOS as I know it flashes a quick 'error "prefix" is not set' message when it boots on to the USB stick and that is apparently related to the UEFI with Asus laptops.

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Breadtangle of Pizza December 14, 2013 – 22:10:31 UTC

I uploaded the ISO file here: http://kickass.to/steamos1-iso-t8365427.html

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robross0606 December 14, 2013 – 22:10:51 UTC

Another screen shot with some more interesting info:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_DBE_oe7C69V19jT1Eyeml4Q2s/edit?usp=sharing

Note the reference to "Vmware Gallium" driver under Video Card. My Logitech RumblePad is also working fine, as you can see by the reference to "A" and "B" actions at the bottom. If you only have mouse input, this changes to a simple "Done" button.

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dschinn1001 December 14, 2013 – 22:35:40 UTC

after some "fight" I have made with success and genisofs a bootable steamos*.iso - now in virtualbox it is booting into efi-shell (after I switched virtualbox with little hook to use efi-mode). But there is in safe-mode not possible to install nvidia-drivers or xserver-xorg, because of unreachable repo.steampowered.com "could not resolve it" says terminal. seems to be something wrong with server or with /etc/apt/sources.list ?!


waiting patiently with faith into a great SteamOS ... but I see that by default neither the nvidia-packages nor xserver-xorg are installed ?! Now it is midnight ... and bedtime ... guess I will try tommorrow to install with expert-mode (not with automatic mode).

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robross0606 December 15, 2013 – 01:18:30 UTC

:-(

The SteamOS GUI is now working absolutely flawlessly on VMWare. However, I tried installing Portal and running it. This fails with a very specific error:

Could not find required OpenGL entry point 'glColorMaskIndexedEXT'!  
Either your video card is unsupported, or your OpenGL driver needs to be updated.

Clearly the games themselves require OpenGL extensions which are not provided by the VMWare driver -- even the accelerated one. I'm not sure there's anything I can do to fix this one but I'll keep searching...

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=TSO=Eggy December 15, 2013 – 01:21:50 UTC

After reading through the comments here, I have successfully installed SteamOS installed in VMWare Player. The only thing I've not been able to resolve is audio, I have tried the two suggested devices along with the pulseaudio configuration tewaks, still no luck getting any audio.

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rebootcomputa December 15, 2013 – 03:24:01 UTC

To people that wish to install SteamOS on a Laptop with optimus/Nvidia cards, I would wait until SteamOS update their OS to include Intel Drivers, as they have not updated their drivers and Gnome3 crashes and does not load... just saying.. :D I get the so called black screen after booting, haven't tried booting into CLI, but it seems that the user/sudo, does not have rights to install drivers yourself.. Ill try to install the OS in expert mode see if I can make an account with elevated privileges..

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Dr. Doom December 15, 2013 – 04:35:19 UTC

I am having a similar problem to Arrjaan and Danailed. I have an Asus G55VW. My USB stick booted successfully and I chose the "Automated Install" . The installation process appeared to go quite smoothly with no hangs or errors. After it completed, GRUB came up and I selected the non-recovery boot and a few seconds later was greeted with a black screen and my laptop's fan going at full bore.

I restarted and selected the recovery mode to see if it made a difference. Everything scrolled by fairly fast, the only error I could see was something about webcam drivers. The boot process stopped at this. I found this confusing as I was plugged into a working ethernet port and I was able to connect just fine on other devices.

I looked up some bash commands for diagnosing network status and detecting hardware devices. I was left with this for an answer. From what I can tell there were no network drivers installed during the installation process.

Looking through various threads and forum posts I had seen it mentioned that getting back to the desktop can make for an easier time for repairing problems. Unfortunately, entering the "exit" command in bash appears to work, but causes a hardlock and black screen once bash appears to process the command.

So, my question, what do?

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rhino.citguy December 15, 2013 – 05:04:57 UTC

Keep in mind the hardware that the SteamOS was designed against. Audio won't work using standard stereo plugs. This is because the OS is designed to output audio via the HDMI cable through a TV.

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Kimikelku December 15, 2013 – 09:52:43 UTC

I did a small tutorial on how to run SteamOS in VMware, i'll do another one for virtualbox asap. http://dimensionmovies.com/showthread.php?tid=213

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Shell_Panda_fr December 15, 2013 – 10:22:10 UTC

Arrfff!! I have to wait! i've got AMD card :/

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Arrjaan! December 15, 2013 – 13:32:26 UTC

@Danailed I guess we'll just have to wait until they support Intel integrated graphics..

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[SH] nicereddy December 15, 2013 – 20:10:25 UTC

This may be useful for those of you interested in playing in Big Picture mode with a friend: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Local_Multiplayer_Games

I didn't want to send it to your twitter since my account is primarily personal use.

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PorterX2Pro December 16, 2013 – 01:16:04 UTC

For anyone wanting a simplified windows usb install process use this free tool I created, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/71638595/SteamOSInstaller.exe

Tool provided as-is without warranty and I am not liable for damages.

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growlley December 16, 2013 – 03:14:46 UTC

Can anyone help been trying since last night and just can not get any further . win 7 x 64 Vmware 10 . followed the instructions and can log in to gnome desktop using steam, steam . It complains about having to use the fallback desktop as not all features are available .

3d acceleration is on in the Vmware settings but I have limited its size to 1024x760 in the Vmware monitor options also . I can start steam by opening a terminal and typing steam then the normal install windows pop up.

desktop / desktop post_install runs but when rebooted I get the logo and the disk does a burst of activity but the screen goes black and stays that way. I have disconnected my 2nd monitor etc so is there any thing else I can try? It will just not start steam in the steamos mode bigscreen

Ok on further investigation it seems when you add the vmare tools it dosnt install x drivers / modules any more. Is this what is causing the problem its not using the accelerated vmware drivers in X?

If so where can I get these prebuilt or how did everyone else get round this? I remember why 'nix's arent for consoles now.

**** Edit fixed using instructions found here https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/28 - not sure sound works though

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wl.abhishekt December 18, 2013 – 17:32:12 UTC

Very nice information. Thank you for sharing it. Thanks

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Cosmo December 19, 2013 – 00:09:50 UTC

Having the same trouble as Arrjaan and the others, I'm on an acer aspire not an asus but I have an intergrated intel on an i7 processor + an nvidia gt 640m.. I am seeming to get issues with the post install stuff though, I had to run post_logon.sh as root because desktop wasn't allowed, I probably should have reconfigured desktop to be allowed to sudo instead, I should have realised that running sudo as root would bork it. Luckily I have it installed on external drive so I can go in through mint to put the file back in and try, I might go into the recovery mode and try to get it running as desktop, see if that works.

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robross0606 December 24, 2013 – 12:34:35 UTC

Ultimately, getting this working in VMWare is an exercise in mental masturbation. It is a pretty good way to get some familiarity with the platform and tinker with the underlying OS. However, I've been able to get as far as possible -- I can start SteamOS interface fully accelerated. However, you cannot play any games because the necessary dependency libraries and OpenGL extensions are simply not exposed in the VMWare driver. Unless/until VMWare changes their architecture to expose the real GPU (as they do with CPU), you won't be able to game within VMWare. I have now added (carefully!) SteamOS to my native multi-boot:

  • OSX(86)
  • Windows 7
  • Ubuntu
  • SteamOS

In a native environment (i7, NVidia GTX460, Intel HD sound) I've managed to get absolutely everything working including games. If you're interested in a relatively safe way of native installation without wiping your existing partitions, check out this link:

http://thelinuxcauldron.com/2013/12/15/steam-os-uefi-workaround-method-2/

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As#L33L EDITOR Bacon B II January 18, 2014 – 02:59:07 UTC

SteamOS download and installation tutorial http://raunakc.com/steamos-download-and-installation-tutorial/

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