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Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Windows Subsystem for Linux
In the Windows search box search for "turn windows features on or off"
scroll down and tick:
- hyper v
- virtual machine platform
- windows subsystem for linux
WSL 2 is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
install the WSL 2 kernel from this link
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-kernel
- Try to use your computers specific subarch stage3:
https://www.funtoo.org/Subarches
- if you're running 64 bit windows, and unsure about your subarch you can use this stage3:
https://www.funtoo.org/Generic_64
- use 7zip to convert the .tar.xz to .tar:
https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
- search for power shell, right click it's icon and select run as administrator:
root # wsl.exe --import "funtoo" "C:\funtoo" "C:\Users\$MYUSER\Downloads\gnome-stage3-amd64-piledriver-1.4-release-std-2020-12-16.tar" --version 2
root # wsl.exe
you are now running funtoo under windows.
root # ego sync root # echo 'FEATURES="-ipc-sandbox -pid-sandbox -mount-sandbox -network-sandbox"' > /etc/portage/make.conf root # emerge -avuND @world