Importing a Debian distro
We need a
root filesystem (rootfs) to be imported. Links to such root fs can be found in
this github repository.
The rootfs must be chosen according to the architecture which are modelled as
branches in this repository, for example
dist-amd64.
In this branch, we find directories for debian releases (bookworm, bullseye, buster etc.). We want to import a bookworm release, so we go to the corresponding directory.
The directory has a link to the wanted
rootfs.tar.xz file. We're interested in the
raw link. This raw link is what we're interested in downloading. We use
PowerShell:
PS:> $progressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
PS:> invoke-webRequest https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/blob/dist-amd64/bookworm/rootfs.tar.xz -out $env:temp/rootfs.tar.xz
The root file system is now ready to be imported. We choose the name debian-imported for the distro:
PS:> wsl --import debian-imported d:\wsl\debian-imported $env:temp/rootfs.tar.xz --version 2
Import in progress, this may take a few minutes.
The operation completed successfully.
Starting the distro:
PS:> wsl -d debian-imported
When not used anymore, we dispose of the distro:
PS:> wsl --unregister debian-imported
PS:> remove-item -rec -fo D:\wsl\debian-imported\