These scripts enable WSL2 on Windows and downloads/installs Debian without the need to interact with the Microsoft Store.
This is based on the instructions provided here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#manual-installation-steps
- Open a
PowerShell
-terminal, and runstage1
:iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/irsital/install-wsl2/main/stage1.ps1 | iex
- Restart machine
- Open a
PowerShell
-terminal, and now runstage2
:iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/irsital/install-wsl2/main/stage2.ps1 | iex
- There are 2 separate manual stages because on the provided machine it's not allowed to create a
Workflow
that does aRegister-ScheduledJob
to continue working after a restart.