installation-on-wsl2.md

Installation on WSL2

Set of scripts for bootstrapping Arch Linux on WSL2.

⚠️ Disclaimer:

This code is published in good faith and for learning purpose only. The code is not fully tested, so any usage of it is strictly at your own risk 🙈.

Installation of Arch distro on Windows 10

• download distro from: yuk7/ArchWSL2
• unzip it to dir C:\arch2
• rename Arch2.exe to the arch2.exe
• run program C:\arch2\arch2.exe

Setup

• open shell again initialize keyring for pacman:

pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate

• update system:

pacman -Syu

⚠️ If you get network error, you may need add firewall rules to allow connections to WSL subnet!

• run QALACS script; see here.

• setup default user for Arch WSL2 distro

in PowerShell:

PS C:\arch2> .\arch2.exe config --default-user <username>

To continue download and install qdots.

TODOs:

• add PS1 script for setup WSL on clean W10 machine; turn on WSL feature; install WSL2 kernel and so on...